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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.
Anne Roiphe
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Anne Roiphe
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: December 25
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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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