Anne Roiphe Quotes

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.

Most Of Us Don't Have Mothers Who Blazed A Trail For Us--at Least, Not All The Way. Coming Of Age Before Or During The Inception Of The Women's Movement, Whether As Working Parents Or Homemakers, Whether Married Or Divorced, Our Mothers Faced Conundrums--what Should They Be? How Should They Act?--that Became Our Uncertainties.

God Is A God Of Lovingkindness.

It Is Hard To Hold On To Friendships When People Move Away To Another State Or To Another World.

Friendship Needs Both Confidences And Confidence In The Other's Outstretched Hand.

I Am Not A Perfect Friend, And It Is Impossible Not To Rebuff Or Be Rebuffed If You Move About The World.

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.

They Want To Play At Being Mothers. So Let Them. Expressing Tenderness In Their Own Way Will Not Prevent Girls From Enjoying A Successful Career In The Future; Indeed, The Ability To Nurture Is As Valuable A Skill In The Workplace As The Ability To Lead.

Is It Possible That My Sons-in-law Will Do Toilets? If We Raise Boys To Know That Diapers Need To Be Changed And Refrigerators Need To Be Cleaned, There's Hope For The Next Generation.

How Deep Is Our Desire To Do Better Than Our Mothers--to Bring Daughters Into Adulthood Strong And Fierce Yet Loving And Gentle, Adventurous And Competitive But Still Nurturing And Friendly, Sweet Yet Sharp. We Know As Working Women That We Can't Quite Have It All, But That Hasn't Stopped Us From Wanting It All For Them.

Our Mythology Tells Us So Much About Fathers And Sons. ... What Do We Know About Mothers And Daughters? ... Our Power Is So Oblique, So Hidden, So Ethereal A Matter, That We Rarely Struggle With Our Daughters Over Actual Kingdoms Or Corporate Shares. On The Other Hand, Our Attractiveness Dries As Theirs Blooms, Our Journey Shortens Just As Theirs Begins. We Too Must Be Afraid And Awed And Amazed That We Cannot Live Forever And That Our Replacements Are Eager For Their Turn, Indifferent To Our Wishes, Ready To Leave Us Behind.

There Is Cruelty In Divorce. There Is Cruelty In Forced Or Unfortunate Marriage. We Will Continue To Cry At Weddings Because We Know How Bittersweet, How Fragile Is The Truth. We Will Always Need Legal Divorce Just As An Emergency Escape Hatch Is Crucial In Every Submarine. No Sense, However, In Denying That After Every Divorce Someone Will Be Running Like A Cat, Tin Cans Tied To Its Tail: Spooked And Slowed Down.