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.
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.
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.
thinking people unhappy
Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.
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.
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.
friendship moving people
It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.
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.