Anne Roiphe People Quotations

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

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.

People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above.

It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.

What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.

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

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.

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.

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.