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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
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Joyce Maynard
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: November 5
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Durham
New Hampshire
Daphne Joyce Maynard
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Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back.
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The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.
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For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.
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[On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in the door.
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Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.
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Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.
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It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.
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I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot.
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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?
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Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.
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I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells me that twenty years from now not one of them will sit on some therapist's couch complaining because their mother didn't spend enough time vacuuming up glitter.
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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.
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To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.
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A good home must be made, not bought.
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I continued to protect him with my silence.
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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.
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I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.
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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.
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It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.
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