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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Family
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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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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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The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. – John Jay Chapman

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Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age. – Jennifer Aniston

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Age

We tried not to age, but time had its rage. – Pete Townshend

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Age

We tend to think of age only in time, but I dont think it has much to do with time at all theres a whole load of other things. Ive met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young. – Roger Daltrey

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Age

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When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it. – Bernard Baily

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When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future. – Bernard Meltzer

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