106 Quotes by Joyce Maynard

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.

The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

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?

There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.

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.

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.