“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.” KnowsNeedsRunningKnow HowCryCatDivorceCrueltyCrucialFragileTiedUnfortunateTailsEmergenciesBittersweetTinSubmarinesTin Cans Author:Anne Roiphe
“Is it possible that my sons-in-law will do toilets? If we raise boys to know that diapers need to be changed and refrigerators need to be cleaned, there's hope for the next generation.” IfsKnowsNeedsLawNextBoysGenerationsChangedSonRaisesMy SonToiletsNext GenerationIn-lawsHouseworkRefrigeratorsDiapers Author:Anne Roiphe
“I feel that the world needs writers. We need to know what's really going on.” KnowsWorldNeedsFeels Author:Anne Roiphe
“You need your freedom. You need to be able to do what you want to do as a journalist, as a person who's speaking for other women as you speak for yourself, and you make a choice. You have to be tough enough to take the consequences of that choice.” WantNeedsPersonsEnoughAbleChoicesSpeakToughConsequenceWhat You WantJournalistYour Freedom Author:Anne Roiphe
“However, there probably is a slight connection between the high-wire, super sensitivity, open to everything and too much, and slightly fragile soul of the artist and the need to self-medicate, which can lead to bad trouble either in drugs, or alcohol. So it's not that there's no connection, it's just that we can't make too much of it because it isn't the addiction that's the issue, it's the fragility of some people who do artistic work, who end up in rehab somewhere or other.” PeopleNeedsSoulEndsSelfArtistIssuesToo MuchTroubleDrugConnectionsAddictionAlcoholArtisticFragileSensitivityWireRehabFragility 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
“Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.” NeedsHandsFriendshipFriends Author:Anne Roiphe
