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At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some

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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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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More than any other setting – more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel – Ill put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue. – Joyce Maynard

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

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Age
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At home its all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I dont want to dress up as Darth Vader or play train sets, so Ill go out for a drink with the girls. – Sadie Frost

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Home

I have never met a woman who works who doesnt feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home. – Kristin Scott Thomas

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Home

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, Im at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know. – Henry Lawson

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Home

Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and its always in the form of someone homeless. Look at that guy – hes crazy. He looks dangerous. Well, hes on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home. – Eric McCormack

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Home

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Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next. – Charles Simmons

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Its what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places its never been before. Theres nothing better than that. – Robin Wright Penn

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