All Anne Roiphe Quotes
- 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… Accumulation
- We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors. Age
- It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world. Another State
- Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand. Both
- Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life. Firsts
- I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world. Friend
- 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… Advantage
- A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears. Beauty
- Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror. Distort
- 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. 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… Act
- You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note. Addicted
- 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… Artist
- 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… Always Possible
- 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… Both
- I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of… All
- 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… Along
- 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,… Angry
- 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… All
- 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.… America
- You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment… Book
- People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above. All
- Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path to the kingdom… Call