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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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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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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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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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Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand. – John Ruskin

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Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs. – Charles Dickens

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Its hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but Im not discouraged. – Jane Fonda

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Im at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasnt competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now Ive gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore. – Courteney Cox

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