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At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.
Joyce Maynard
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Joyce Maynard
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: November 5
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Daphne Joyce Maynard
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One of the sad realities of being a parent is that the same stuff you know is exciting, educational, and enriching in your child'slife is often messy, smelly and exhausting to deal with.
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More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.
Joyce Maynard
If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.
Joyce Maynard
You lay your hand against his skin and just rib his back. Blow into his ear. Press that baby up against your own skin and walk outside with him, where the night air will sourround him, and moonlight fall on his face. Whistle, maybe. Dance. Hum. Pray. (how to calm a crying baby)
Joyce Maynard
It's sad but true that if you focus your attention on housework and meal preparation and diapers, raising children does start to look like drudgery pretty quickly. On the other hand, if you see yourself as nothing less than your child's nurturer, role model, teacher, spiritual guide, and mentor, your days take on a very different cast.
Joyce Maynard
Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.
Joyce Maynard
Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.
Joyce Maynard
[On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in the door.
Joyce Maynard
It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.
Joyce Maynard
There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.
Joyce Maynard
Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back.
Joyce Maynard
The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.
Joyce Maynard
I continued to protect him with my silence.
Joyce Maynard
I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.
Joyce Maynard
My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?
Joyce Maynard
If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.
Joyce Maynard
It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.
Joyce Maynard
Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.
Joyce Maynard
I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way but for me part of the adventure is not knowing how it's going to turn out.
Joyce Maynard
Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.
Joyce Maynard
