Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Anne Roiphe Quotes

- Journalist | December 25, 1935 -

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

Life Grief Moving On Loss First Two

Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.

Mirror Never Self-Pity Useful Like

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.

Women Parents Believe Opportunities

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.

Life Good Time Woman Angry Support

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

Smile Beauty Woman Kind Matter She

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.

Live Freedom People Think Rules

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.

Hair Looking America You Look Class

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.

Reality Choose Quiet Two Dramatic

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.

Women Truth Children History People

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

Creative People You Anything Note

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.

Live Space Society Think Fighting

I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.

Friend I Am World Impossible You Am

12 Next page Last

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Anne Roiphe quotes