Anne Roiphe
Anne Roiphe
Anne Roipheis 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. In 1996, Salon called the book "a feminist classic."...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 December 1935
liars two secret
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.
confused hate people
People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above.
class america hair
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.
fighting thinking artist
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.
thinking support important
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.
party two sometimes
I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join a party. I follow along and take notes. Sometimes I throw in my two cents.
hurt thinking pieces
I would prefer you not to say, "That was the most terribly written piece I've ever read." That would hurt me. But you don't think I'm the best person in the world? Well, alright.
reading writing choices
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.
reality two decay
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.
thinking artist self
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.
writing thinking people
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.
family sex disappointment
I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.
god lovingkindness
God is a God of Lovingkindness.
thinking people unhappy
Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.