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Anne Roiphe (born December 25, 1935) is an American writer and journalist. She is best known as a first-generation feminist, and author of the novel Up The Sandbox (1970), which was filmed as a starring vehicle for Barbra Streisand in 1972. In 1996, Salon called the book "a feminist classic."

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Our mythology tells us so much about fathers and sons. . . . What do we know about mothers and daughters?. . . Our power is so oblique, so hidden, so ethereal a matter, that we rarely struggle with our daughters over actual kingdoms or corporate shares. On the other hand, our attractiveness dries as theirs blooms, our journey shortens just as theirs begins. We too must be afraid and awed and amazed that we cannot live forever and that our replacements are eager for their turn, indifferent to our wishes, ready to leave us behind.

Daughter, Ethereal, Father, Know, Mother, Mothers

I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.

Friend, Moving, Perfect, Rebuffed, World

God is a God of Lovingkindness.

God, Lovingkindness

I don't really think it comes as a shock to every writer if somebody in their family is mad at them. Yes, it's very upsetting. But it's inherent in the process of trying to make sense of one's life, which is what I think is perhaps at the bottom of writing at all.

Mad, Perhaps, Thinking, Writer, Writing

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.

Choices, Consequences, Journalist, Needs, Tough, Want

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.

Community, Difficult, People, Recognize, Thing, World

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.

America, Class, Hair, Needing, Straight

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

Beauty, Expression, Kind, Love, Smile

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.

Children, Doctors, Know, Make, People, Possible

I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and the why of your choices and the what has happened that you know and the what that you don't know is really riveting, and psychoanalysts share my wonder at how it all unfolds.

Choices, Conscious, Fascinated, Reading, Riveting, Writing

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

Art, Artist, Doe, Romanticizing, Simply, Writing

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.

Artist, Bound, Explore, Self, Social, Thinking

Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.

Marriages, People, Think, Thinking, Unhappy

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.

Decay, Dreadful, Quiet, Reality, Two

Most of us don't have mothers who blazed a trail for us--at least, not all the way. Coming of age before or during the inception of the women's movement, whether as working parents or homemakers, whether married or divorced, our mothers faced conundrums--what should they be? how should they act?--that became our uncertainties.

Inception, Mother, Movement, Uncertainties, Women, Working Parents

We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.

Age, Drearier, Feathers, Fit, Indoors, Youth

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.

Adults, Children, Experiences, Love, People, Writing

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.

Daughter, Daughters, Family, Paint, Two, Writing

They want to play at being mothers. So let them. Expressing tenderness in their own way will not prevent girls from enjoying a successful career in the future; indeed, the ability to nurture is as valuable a skill in the workplace as the ability to lead.

Future, Girl, Mother, Play, Successful

There is cruelty in divorce. There is cruelty in forced or unfortunate marriage. We will continue to cry at weddings because we know how bittersweet, how fragile is the truth. We will always need legal divorce just as an emergency escape hatch is crucial in every submarine. No sense, however, in denying that after every divorce someone will be running like a cat, tin cans tied to its tail: spooked and slowed down.

Cat, Cry, Divorce, Running, Tail, Tin

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