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A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.

Joyce Maynard

It's a great thing when a man knows how to dance, she said. When a man can dance, the world is his oyster." Adele, Henry's Mother

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It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

Joyce Maynard

Before I had children I always wondered whether their births would be, for me, like the ultimate in my gym class failures. And discovered, instead... that I'd finally found my sport.

Joyce Maynard

Every child, woman, and man should possess license to speak or sing in his or her true voice.

Joyce Maynard

Joyce Maynard

Joyce Maynard

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Born: November 5, 1953 (age 71)

Bio: Daphne Joyce Maynard is an American novelist and journalist. She received much attention from the press with the publication of her 1998 memoir At Home in the World, in which she wrote that she had lived with the writer J. D.

Known for:

At Home in the World: A Memoir (1998)
Labor Day (2009)
The Usual Rules (2003)
Where love goes (1993)
The cloud chamber (2005)

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