Joyce Maynard Quotes

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• The word NO, carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.
• I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and…
• A good home must be made, not bought.
• My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off…
• Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply…
• It's not only children who grow. Parents do too...
• Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the…
• As for me, I've chosen to follow a simple course: Come clean. And wherever possible, live your life in a way that won't leave you…
• If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his…
• I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells me that twenty…
• It's sad but true that if you focus your attention on housework and meal preparation and diapers, raising children does start to look like drudgery…
• Before I had children I always wondered whether their births would be, for me, like the ultimate in gym class failures. And I discovered instead...…
• Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been…
• Every child, woman, and man should possess license to speak or sing in his or her true voice.
• Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.
• I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a…
• The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.
• I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.
• The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.
• Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back.

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