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
nice upset print
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
daughter mother father
Our mythology tells us so much about fathers and sons. ... What do we know about mothers and daughters? ... Our power is so oblique, so hidden, so ethereal a matter, that we rarely struggle with our daughters over actual kingdoms or corporate shares. On the other hand, our attractiveness dries as theirs blooms, our journey shortens just as theirs begins. We too must be afraid and awed and amazed that we cannot live forever and that our replacements are eager for their turn, indifferent to our wishes, ready to leave us behind.
moving perfect world
I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.
thinking stories may
I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.
believe mean opportunity
I believe that it is our human right to be parents and women. And there's no contradiction between feminism, which means women should have all that they are entitled to, all that they can do, all the opportunities that they can take advantage of they should have.
running cat divorce
There is cruelty in divorce. There is cruelty in forced or unfortunate marriage. We will continue to cry at weddings because we know how bittersweet, how fragile is the truth. We will always need legal divorce just as an emergency escape hatch is crucial in every submarine. No sense, however, in denying that after every divorce someone will be running like a cat, tin cans tied to its tail: spooked and slowed down.