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
son boys law
Is it possible that my sons-in-law will do toilets? If we raise boys to know that diapers need to be changed and refrigerators need to be cleaned, there's hope for the next generation.
daughter mother father
Our mythology tells us so much about fathers and sons. ... What do we know about mothers and daughters? ... Our power is so oblique, so hidden, so ethereal a matter, that we rarely struggle with our daughters over actual kingdoms or corporate shares. On the other hand, our attractiveness dries as theirs blooms, our journey shortens just as theirs begins. We too must be afraid and awed and amazed that we cannot live forever and that our replacements are eager for their turn, indifferent to our wishes, ready to leave us behind.
daughter writing two
I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a painting family, we would paint.
choices needs want
You need your freedom. You need to be able to do what you want to do as a journalist, as a person who's speaking for other women as you speak for yourself, and you make a choice. You have to be tough enough to take the consequences of that choice.
pain confused love-is
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.
nice upset print
You really can't say things that upset someone in print and expect them to be nice and leave you their money. That's just not reasonable.
self years age
We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves became our 10-year-old selves, and so on and on; and if we unpack our selves, the full album appears. Every moment is a part of the following moment, and we are all a continuum.
friendship moving people
It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.
thinking stories may
I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.
friendship friends hands
Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.
women religion way
Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.
thinking people world
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.
thinking use modern
I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it.
world needs feels
I feel that the world needs writers. We need to know what's really going on.