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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Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. – Doug Coupland

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Im asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldnt say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I dont know myself at all yet. – Kristen Stewart

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If I could only go back to thirty, and yet retain all my experience, I would turn somersaults all the way down to Ostergade. – Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875), written in his seventieth year [The f

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Age swallows our childhood. – Terri Guillemets

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We are always getting ready to live but never living. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. – Fred A. Allen

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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. – Epicurus

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My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War. – Mikhail Baryshnikov

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