Anne Roiphe
Anne Roiphe
Anne Roipheis an American writer and journalist. She is best known as a first-generation feminist, and author of the novel Up The Sandbox, which was filmed as a starring vehicle for Barbra Streisand in 1972. In 1996, Salon called the book "a feminist classic."...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 December 1935
art writing doe
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.
women religion way
Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.
book islands desert
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.
mother mean thinking
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.
fun self mirrors
Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.
fighting thinking artist
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.
class america hair
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.
writing thinking people
What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.
book giving humanity
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 of your own humanity. Not much else.
friendship friends hands
Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.
friendship moving people
It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.
hurt thinking pieces
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.
mother daughter sweet
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.
age youth fit
We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.