“This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime.” IfsRealCountryWould BeLawCrimeResourcesProtectionMarijuanaLaw EnforcementEnforcementBetter PlacePlaces To Live Author:Gary Johnson
“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
“I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it.” ThinkingUseOur LivesModernMaterials 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
“It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had been in World War II, I might have been writing about D-Day over and over again.” IfsWorldWritingHas BeensWarMightTraumaWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IMight Have BeenD Day Author:Anne Roiphe
“I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.” ThinkingWayMayDifferentEnoughStoriesDifferent WaysTwelve Author:Anne Roiphe
“You really can't say things that upset someone in print and expect them to be nice and leave you their money. That's just not reasonable.” NiceUpsetReasonablePrintBeing Nice 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