Joyce Maynard
Joyce Maynard
Daphne Joyce Maynardis an American novelist and journalist. She received much attention from the press with the publication of her 1998 memoir At Home in the World, in which she wrote that she had lived with the writer J. D. Salinger when he was 53 and she was 18...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth5 November 1953
CountryUnited States of America
jobs cancer writing
My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?
children eye men
I'd known enough flush times and lean ones to understand that money came and went. And that one day I'd also lose my looks, my seemingly boundless energy and maybe the ability to catch the eye of an attractive man and the audacity to Rollerblade. My name would be forgotten. So would bad reviews, and good ones. But loving a child is something that lasts. Long after all the rest is gone, that's what endures.
mother daughter encouragement
I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.
perfection world illusion
Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.
home calling persons
Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back.
home light track
A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.
loyalty persons deserve
A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.
stories share worthwhile
To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.
spiritual teacher children
It's sad but true that if you focus your attention on housework and meal preparation and diapers, raising children does start to look like drudgery pretty quickly. On the other hand, if you see yourself as nothing less than your child's nurturer, role model, teacher, spiritual guide, and mentor, your days take on a very different cast.
home made
A good home must be made, not bought.
parent know-how knows
The word NO, carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.
children parenting single-child
It's not only children who grow. Parents do too...
sports children class
Before I had children I always wondered whether their births would be, for me, like the ultimate in gym class failures. And I discovered instead... that I'd finally found my sport.
girlfriend giving speech
I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.