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I would prefer you not to say, That was the most terribly written piece I've ever read. That would hurt me. But you don't think I'm the best person in the world? Well, alright.

Anne Roiphe

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Anne Roiphe
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: December 25
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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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We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.
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When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else. And what that meant was looking like the dominant ruling class in America.
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God is a God of Lovingkindness.
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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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You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.
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I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.
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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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Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.
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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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Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both.
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Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.
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A person who has no secrets is a liar. We always fold ourselves away from others just enough to preserve a secret or two, something that we cannot share without destroying our inner landscape.
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One of the things about parents and children is that there is no way that you go through this without there being mutual anger.
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I feel that the world needs writers. We need to know what's really going on.
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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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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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It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.
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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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I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it.
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