Quote by Joyce Maynard
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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If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, thats fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldnt! They shouldnt read my work! – 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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Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldnt have to mean public confessions. – Tiger Woods

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One of lifes greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasnt good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. – Yiddish Proverb

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Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it! – Alanis Morissette

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I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didnt have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him. – Jane Fonda

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A surgeon should be young a physician old. – Proverb

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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you dont come home at night. – Margaret Mead

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