Anne Roiphe Quotes

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• We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves became our 10-year-old…
• We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.
• It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.
• Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.
• Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.
• I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.
• I believe that it is our human right to be parents and women. And there's no contradiction between feminism, which means women should have all…
• A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
• Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.
• If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.
• Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply…
• You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.
• Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of…
• We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to…
• Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of…
• I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of…
• I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join a party. I…
• I think it is a good thing to have woman friends at every stage of life. We confide in each other, we support each other,…
• I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to…
• When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else.…

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