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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.
Anne Roiphe
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Anne Roiphe
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: December 25
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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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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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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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