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.
You really can't say things that upset someone in print and expect them to be nice and leave you their money. That's just not reasonable. - Anne Roiphe
You really can't say things that upset someone in print and expect them to be nice and leave you their money. That's just not reasonable.
- Anne Roiphe
We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves became our 10-year-old selves, and so… - Anne Roiphe
We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves became our 10-year-old selves, and so…
Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life. - Anne Roiphe
Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.
You need your freedom. You need to be able to do what you want to do as a journalist, as a person who's speaking for other women as you speak for you… - Anne Roiphe
You need your freedom. You need to be able to do what you want to do as a journalist, as a person who's speaking for other women as you speak for you…
God is a God of Lovingkindness. - Anne Roiphe
God is a God of Lovingkindness.
You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening … - Anne Roiphe
You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening …
Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies. - Anne Roiphe
Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.
I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a… - Anne Roiphe
I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a…
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 t… - Anne Roiphe
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 t…
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