“A person who has no secrets is a liar. We always fold ourselves away from others just enough to preserve a secret or two, something that we cannot share without destroying our inner landscape.” PersonsTwoEnoughSecretShareLandscapePreservesLiarsDestroyingFolds Author:Anne Roiphe
“I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a painting family, we would paint.” IfsWritingTwoWishPaintingDaughterPaintLawyer Author:Anne Roiphe
“Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both.” TwoRealityOur LivesQuietDramaticSufficientDecayExplosionsGhastly Author:Anne Roiphe
“I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join a party. I follow along and take notes. Sometimes I throw in my two cents.” TwoSometimesSocialPartyNotesCriticsCentsIdeologuesTwo Cents Author:Anne Roiphe
“Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.” LifeFirstsTwoMovingLossGriefKeep Moving Book:Epilogue: A Memoir Source: Epilogue: A Memoir
