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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 our lives have sufficient of both.
Anne Roiphe
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Anne Roiphe
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: December 25
Essayist
Film Writer
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
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Decay
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I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.
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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 selves, and so on and on and if we unpack our selves, the full album appears. Every moment is a part of the following moment, and we are all a continuum.
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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.
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What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.
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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 of cruelty, or she may simply have confused lack of capital with heroism while searching for rescue without knowing from what.
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You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.
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Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.
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I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.
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We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.
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Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.
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A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
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God is a God of Lovingkindness.
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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 that they are entitled to, all that they can do, all the opportunities that they can take advantage of they should have.
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