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“When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else. And what that meant was looking like the dominant ruling class in America.”

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Anne Roiphe

Anne Roiphe is a renowned film writer, born on December 25, 1935. Her works are known for their profound emotions and unique perspectives, contributing to the classic films in the film industry. more

“Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding principle, losing sight in the meanwhile of reality, whereas the normal person is always ready to dispense with this crutch, this aid, and reckon unhampered with reality.”

Fiction Crosses Medical Neurotic Neurosis

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“Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.”

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Author:Elizabeth Berkley

“You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.”

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Author:Anne Roiphe

“In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.”

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