Your Own Humanity Quotes by Anne Roiphe

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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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better…
• You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.

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