Quote by Joyce Maynard
Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial p

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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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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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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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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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. – Soren Kierkegaard

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It doesnt matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties. – Lance Bass

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Every time I see something terrible, its like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way. – Ralph Nader

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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty – but only vaguely. – Camille Pissarro

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In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile. – Elinor Wylie

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