Anne Roiphe
Author
1935-12-25
Anne Roiphe is an American novelist and journalist associated with second-wave feminist writing. She is known for works including Up the Sandbox and for essays on family, religion, and women's roles.
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Quotes by Anne Roiphe
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If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.
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I believe that it is our human right to be parents and women. And there's no contradiction between feminism, which means women should have all that they are entitled to, all that they can do, all the opportunities that they can take advantage of they should have.
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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.
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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.
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A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
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