Anne Roiphe Quotes - Page 2

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• Our mythology tells us so much about fathers and sons. ... What do we know about mothers and daughters? ... Our power is so oblique, so hidden, so ethereal a matter, that we rarely struggle with our daughters over actual kingdoms or corporate shares. On the other hand, our attractiveness dries as theirs blooms, our journey shortens just as theirs begins. We too must be afraid and awed and amazed that we cannot live forever and that our replacements are eager for their turn, indifferent to our wishes, ready to leave us behind.

  Anne Roiphe

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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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.

  Anne Roiphe

  People, Creative, Notes

  "Anne Roiphe's Lust, Passion, and Very Good Memory". Interview with Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 15, 2011.

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• Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

  Anne Roiphe

  Art, Writing, Doe

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• If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.

  Anne Roiphe

  Book, Islands, Desert

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• Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.

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  Fun, Mirrors, Self

  Anne Roiphe (2009). “Epilogue: A Memoir”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.

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  Moving, Perfect, World

  "Friendship by the Book: An Interview with Anne Roiphe". Interview with Irene S. Levine, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 24, 2008.

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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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  Friendship, Moving, People

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• Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.

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  Friendship, Friends, Hands

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• I believe that it is our human right to be parents and women. And there's no contradiction between feminism, which means women should have all that they are entitled to, all that they can do, all the opportunities that they can take advantage of they should have.

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  Believe, Mean, Opportunity

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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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  Reality, Two, Decay

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• Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.

  Anne Roiphe

  Artist, Thinking, Self

  "Anne Roiphe's Lust, Passion, and Very Good Memory". Interview with Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 15, 2011.

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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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  Children, Parent, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You have to have a certain kind of thickening of the hide. I mean, I'm not particularly worried about what other people think. If other people think that I was not the world's most perfect mother, they are completely right.

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  Mother, Mean, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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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.

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  Hurt, Thinking, Pieces

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People always think their world is coming to an end if they're exposed, and of course it isn't coming to an end; it goes right on exactly the way it always was.

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  Thinking, People, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and the why of your choices and the what has happened that you know and the what that you don't know is really riveting, and psychoanalysts share my wonder at how it all unfolds.

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  Reading, Writing, Choices

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• I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join a party. I follow along and take notes. Sometimes I throw in my two cents.

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  Party, Two, Sometimes

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• I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to live or create, and they were bucking all kinds of spoken and unspoken rules.

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  Fighting, Artist, Thinking

  "Anne Roiphe's Lust, Passion, and Very Good Memory". Interview with Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 15, 2011.

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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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  Hair, Class, America

  "Anne Roiphe's Lust, Passion, and Very Good Memory". Anne Roiphe's Lust, Passion, and Very Good Memory, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 15, 2011.

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• I don't really think it comes as a shock to every writer if somebody in their family is mad at them. Yes, it's very upsetting. But it's inherent in the process of trying to make sense of one's life, which is what I think is perhaps at the bottom of writing at all.

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  Writing, Thinking, Mad

  Source: therumpus.net

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• How deep is our desire to do better than our mothers--to bring daughters into adulthood strong and fierce yet loving and gentle, adventurous and competitive but still nurturing and friendly, sweet yet sharp. We know as working women that we can't quite have it all, but that hasn't stopped us from wanting it all for them.

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  Mother, Daughter, Sweet

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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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  Age, Youth, Fit

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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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  Girl, Mother, Successful

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• Is it possible that my sons-in-law will do toilets? If we raise boys to know that diapers need to be changed and refrigerators need to be cleaned, there's hope for the next generation.

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  Son, Boys, Law

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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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  Children, Writing, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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