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
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At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.
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[On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in the door.
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Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back.
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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.
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A good home must be made, not bought.
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I have not chosen to live a particularly private life myself, I respect the decision of any man or woman who chooses to live such a life.
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Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.
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I've had some wonderful successes and some extreme disappointments in my career and my life.
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I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?
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Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home.
You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know.
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The word no Carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.
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This book was written with a high level of awareness about the needs of other people in my life, and a respect for certain boundaries.
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One life is not enough for me. I want to go lots of places.