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Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

~Anne Roiphe

Topics: First Grief Life Loss Parts Second Two

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You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.

~Anne Roiphe

Topics: Addicted Addictive Anything Creative Most Note People Produce Remarkable You

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

~Anne Roiphe

Topics: Beauty Expression Glad Kind Matter Open She Smile Wears Whose Woman

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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.

~Anne Roiphe

Topics: Also Always Armed Become Children Doctors History Insurance Know Make Managers Our People Picture Possible Rotten Sure Tell The History Of Them True Truth Want Way Women

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I think it is a good thing to have woman friends at every stage of life. We confide in each other, we support each other, we understand each other most of the time. Of course, sometimes we are competitive or angry or distant, too. But I do think it is important not to let the main friendships slip away in the sweep of the days.

~Anne Roiphe

Topics: Angry Away Competitive Confide Course Days Distant Each Every Friends Friendships Good Good Thing Important Life Main Most Other Slip Sometimes Stage Support Sweep Thing Think Time Too Understand Woman I Think A Good Thing

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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.

~Anne Roiphe

Topics: Between Both Choose Decay Dramatic Dreadful Explosion Ghastly Lives Most Much Our Our Lives Quiet Reality Sufficient Them Two

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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.

~Anne Roiphe

Topics: Artists Bound Dangerously Everybody Explore Freedom Kind Little Live Lot Minds More Need Openly Other People Rules Social Some Sometimes Take Tend Than Them Think I Think

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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.

~Anne Roiphe

Topics: America Class Dominant Else Everyone Everyone Else Grew Hair Like Look Looking Meant Needed Needing Ruling Ruling Class Straight Symbolic Up You

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I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to live or create, and they were bucking all kinds of spoken and unspoken rules.

~Anne Roiphe

Topics: Artists Certainly Conformist Create Enough Fighting Give Kinds Live Rules Society Space Spoken Them Think Unspoken Very Were Which I Think

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I believe that it is our human right to be parents and women. And there's no contradiction between feminism, which means women should have all that they are entitled to, all that they can do, all the opportunities that they can take advantage of they should have.

~Anne Roiphe

Topics: Advantage Believe Between Contradiction Entitled Feminism Human Means Opportunities Our Parents Right Should Take Take Advantage Which Women I Believe I Believe That

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Journalist

Born: December 25th, 1935

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