Most of us don't have mothers who blazed a trail for us--at least, not all the way. Coming of age before or during the inception of the women's movement, whether as working parents or homemakers, whether married or divorced, our mothers faced conundrums--what should they be? how should they act?--that became our uncertainties.
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
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…
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.
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…
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…
God is a God of Lovingkindness. - Anne Roiphe
God is a God of Lovingkindness.
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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