“Lovers, children, heroes, none of them do we fantasize as extravagantly as we fantasize our parents.” ChildrenParentHeroLovers Book:World Without End Source: World Without End
“one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.” ParentForgivingOneself Author:Francine du Plessix Gray
“Mine [parents] started out more from scratch, because I'm constantly aware of what they suffered in the war.” WarParentMinesScratches Author:Francine du Plessix Gray
“All our parents have levels of deviousness. We're driven to write about this discrepancy between the bright shining selves they invented and the monsters lurking underneath.” WritingSelfParentLevelsShiningDrivenMonstersLurkingDiscrepanciesDiscrepancies BetweenDeviousness Author:Francine du Plessix Gray
“I think it's one of the reasons I wrote my book later in life. My parents didn't have these extreme alternations of conduct. They were very sweet to me.” ThinkingBookReasonParentSweetExtremesLater In LifeVery Sweet Author:Francine du Plessix Gray
“I didn't find this memoir of these two eccentric people so different from doing my memoirs of De Sade or Simone Weil. My parents in their own way are as odd as Sade.” PeopleWayTwoDifferentParentMemoirOddEccentric Author:Francine du Plessix Gray
“I think we're much more eager to know about our parents than we were in the seventies.” ThinkingKnowsParentSeventies Author:Francine du Plessix Gray
“I was just reviewed by Robert Gottlieb, who was my editor at 'The New Yorker,' and he sort of wondered at the fact that I still need to exorcise my parents at my age. I think he makes a basic mistake in thinking that exorcism can ever be total. The exorcism of your parents will still be occurring on your own deathbed.” ThinkingNeedsStillsFactsAgeParentMistakeEditorsNew YorkersDeathbedExorcism Author:Francine du Plessix Gray
“I write because in the act of creation there comes that mysterious, abundant sense of being both parent and child; I am giving birth to an Other and simultaneously being reborn as a child in the playground of creation.” GivingWritingChildrenParentCreationBirthMysteriousPlaygroundsRebornGiving BirthChildren And Parents Author:Francine du Plessix Gray
