Quote by Joyce Maynard
I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughters a

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughters age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves. – Joyce Maynard

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At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood. – Joyce Maynard

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Home
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Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful. – Joyce Maynard

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Experience
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The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what Ive written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval. – Joyce Maynard

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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. – Marshall McLuhan

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The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as youre learning youre not old. – Rosalyn S. Yalow

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A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. – William Shakespeare

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Grammarians squabble, and will squabble long. – Horace (65–8B.C.), De Arte Poetica, translated by George Colman, 1783

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Our destiny hides among our free choices, disguised as the free-est of all. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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