Anne Roiphe Quotes & Sayings
17 most famous Anne Roiphe quotes and sayings (journalist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.”
“Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.”
“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.”
“Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.”
“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.”
“I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.”
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