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More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms

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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To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it. – Joyce Maynard

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alone
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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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Fear
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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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If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and thats broken apart, I think thats probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area. – Bridget Moynahan

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Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family. – Jerry B. Jenkins

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I don’t have to look up my family tree, because I know that I’m the sap. – Fred Allen

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No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I dont parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay. – Tom Hanks

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