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

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

- 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…

- Anne Roiphe

God is a God of Lovingkindness.

- Anne Roiphe

Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.

- 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 …

- 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…

- 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…

- Anne Roiphe