75 Quotes by Anne Roiphe

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.