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

Anne Roiphe

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

Anne Roiphe

A person who has no secrets is a liar. We always fold ourselves away from others just enough to preserve a secret or two, something that we cannot share without destroying our inner landscape.

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Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path to the kingdom of cruelty, or she may simply have confused lack of capital with heroism while searching for rescue without knowing from what.

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Is it true that writers are pillagers of privacy? Yes. And it is also true that others get hurt along the way. But what are a few hurt feelings along the fiction trail?

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I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.

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Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.

Anne Roiphe

Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.

Anne Roiphe

Anne Roiphe

Anne Roiphe

Born: December 25, 1935 (age 90)

Bio: Anne Roiphe is an American writer and journalist. She is best known as a first-generation feminist, and author of the novel Up The Sandbox, which was filmed as a starring vehicle for Barbra Streisand in 1972.

Known for:

Epilogue: A Memoir (2008)
1185 Park Avenue (1999)
Fruitful (1993)
Lovingkindness: A Novel (1987)

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