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
children writing people
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.
people community world
We have to recognize that it is a very, very painful thing for people to be exposed to their social community, to be exposed in the world, as not what they would have wanted to be seen as. This is very painful and difficult for people.
thinking people world
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.
thinking people unhappy
Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.
people creative notes
You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.
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.
friendship moving people
It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.
confused hate people
People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above.
children doctors people
We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.
writing thinking mad
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.
world needs feels
I feel that the world needs writers. We need to know what's really going on.
thinking use modern
I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it.
mother book writing
My mother had died when I wrote my first book. I was twenty-seven, so it was right at the beginning of my writing life. I don't know if she had lived, if I would have done it, certainly not quite like I did. But, you can't rethink it. You wrote what you wrote, it meant something to other people, and that's your good.
war writing world
It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had been in World War II, I might have been writing about D-Day over and over again.