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I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.

Joyce Maynard

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Joyce Maynard
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: November 5
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Durham
New Hampshire
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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)
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I continued to protect him with my silence.
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Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother worked at anything besides raising her children.
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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.
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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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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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Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.
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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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I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.
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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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For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.
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It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.
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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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A good home must be made, not bought.
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