5 Quotes & Sayings By Anne Roiphe

Anne Roiphe is an author who has written three novels, two memoirs and a short story collection. She is a graduate of Vassar College and Harvard Law School, where she was Editor of the Harvard Law Review. She spent a year as a Rhodes Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge University. Roiphe taught law at Harvard and has been a visiting professor at Yale University Read more

She lives in New York City with her husband, the writer Philip Jenkins, and their two children.

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Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life. Anne Roiphe
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You wanted to live inside the lines where the ordinariness of everything would protect you from the dragons that lay at the edge of the map ready to blow fire in your face if you strayed off course, to the edge of the known world. Anne Roiphe
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I carried with me into the West End Bar, the White Horse Tavern, a long list of things I would never do: I would never have my hair set in a beauty parlor. I would never move to a suburb and bake cakes or make casseroles. I would never go to a country club dance, although I did like the paper lanterns casting rainbow colors on the terrace. I would never invest in the stock market. I would never play canasta. I would never wear pearls. I would love like a nursling but I would never go near a man who had a portfolio or a set of golf clubs or a business or even a business suit. I would only love a wild thing. I didn't care if wild things tended to break hearts. I didn't care if they substituted scotch for breakfast cereal. I understood that wild things wrote suicide notes to the gods and were apt to show up three hours later than promised. I understood that art was long and life was short. Anne Roiphe
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A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears. Anne Roiphe