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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.
Anne Roiphe
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Anne Roiphe
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: December 25
Essayist
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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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My mother had died when I wrote my first book. I was twenty-seven, so it was right at the beginning of my writing life. I don't know if she had lived, if I would have done it, certainly not quite like I did. But, you can't rethink it. You wrote what you wrote, it meant something to other people, and that's your good.
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We have to recognize that it is a very, very painful thing for people to be exposed to their social community, to be exposed in the world, as not what they would have wanted to be seen as. This is very painful and difficult for people.
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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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You really can't say things that upset someone in print and expect them to be nice and leave you their money. That's just not reasonable.
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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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You need your freedom. You need to be able to do what you want to do as a journalist, as a person who's speaking for other women as you speak for yourself, and you make a choice. You have to be tough enough to take the consequences of that choice.
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You have to have a certain kind of thickening of the hide. I mean, I'm not particularly worried about what other people think. If other people think that I was not the world's most perfect mother, they are completely right.
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