Anne Roiphe Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Anne Roiphe quotes and sayings page 2 (journalist). These are the last 7 out of 17 quotes we have.
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.”
“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.”
“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.”
“You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.”
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