“Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.” PeopleThinkingBodyUnhappyHappy MarriageUnhappy Marriage Author:Anne Roiphe
“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.” PeopleWritingChildrenAdultsAnd LoveLoved OnesOffended Author:Anne Roiphe
“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.” PeopleWorldWantedSocialDifficultCommunityPainfulExposedPainful Things Author:Anne Roiphe
“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.” PeopleIfsKnowsWritingFirstsBookDoneMotherDiedTwentiesSevenWriting Life Author:Anne Roiphe
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWayEndsCoursesExposedComing To An End Author:Anne Roiphe
“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
“What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.” PeopleThinkingWritingMatterMajorsConcernThink Of Me 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
“You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.” PeopleCreativeProduceNotesRemarkableBe Creative 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
“We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.” PeopleKnowsWayWantChildrenDoctorsOur ChildrenManagersRotten Author:Anne Roiphe
“People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above.” PeopleHateAnswersConfusedUsualHate HimConfused Love Author:Anne Roiphe
“It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.” PeopleWorldHardStatesMovingFriendshipFriendsAnother World Author:Anne Roiphe
