“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldKindMeanMotherCertainPerfectWorried Author:Anne Roiphe
“A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.” LoveKindMatterBeautyExpressionNo Matter WhatSmileGladInner BeautyTrue BeautyGladnessHer BeautyShort Beauty Author:Anne Roiphe
“Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.” PeopleThinkingNeedsMindKindLittlesSelfSometimesArtistSocialBounds Author:Anne Roiphe
“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.” ThinkingGivingKindEnoughArtistFightingSpaceAll KindsUnspokenConformistUnspoken Rules Author:Anne Roiphe
