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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.

Anne Roiphe

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Anne Roiphe
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: December 25
Essayist
Film Writer
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
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Mutual
Anger
Parents

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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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We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.
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