American - Writer | November 5, 1953 -
Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.
Joyce Maynard
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It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.
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I've had some wonderful successes and some extreme disappointments in my career and my life.
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The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.
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For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.
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I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.
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I continued to protect him with my silence.
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I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.
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I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?
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It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects.
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Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.
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Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.
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