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I feel that the world needs writers. We need to know what's really going on.

Anne Roiphe

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Anne Roiphe
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: December 25
Essayist
Film Writer
Journalist
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New York City
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Many writers do write about their families and their immediate loved ones and love experiences, either as children or as adults. And very often people get offended by it.
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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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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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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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I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a painting family, we would paint.
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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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People always think their world is coming to an end if they're exposed, and of course it isn't coming to an end it goes right on exactly the way it always was.
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I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.
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They want to play at being mothers. So let them. Expressing tenderness in their own way will not prevent girls from enjoying a successful career in the future indeed, the ability to nurture is as valuable a skill in the workplace as the ability to lead.
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I don't really think it comes as a shock to every writer if somebody in their family is mad at them. Yes, it's very upsetting. But it's inherent in the process of trying to make sense of one's life, which is what I think is perhaps at the bottom of writing at all.
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Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.
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How deep is our desire to do better than our mothers--to bring daughters into adulthood strong and fierce yet loving and gentle, adventurous and competitive but still nurturing and friendly, sweet yet sharp. We know as working women that we can't quite have it all, but that hasn't stopped us from wanting it all for them.
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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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God is a God of Lovingkindness.
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Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.
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It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.
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Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.
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Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.
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It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had been in World War II, I might have been writing about D-Day over and over again.
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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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