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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.
Anne Roiphe
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Anne Roiphe
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: December 25
Essayist
Film Writer
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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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People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above.
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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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We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.
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God is a God of Lovingkindness.
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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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Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.
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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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I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join a party. I follow along and take notes. Sometimes I throw in my two cents.
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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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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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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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