Logo
Quote by Joyce Maynard
If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confron

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

Other quotes by Joyce Maynard

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

Category:
Experience
Author
Joyce Maynard
Read Quote

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

Category:
Fear
Author
Joyce Maynard
Read Quote

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

Category:
Age
Author
Joyce Maynard
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Experience
category

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. – Alan Watts

Category:
Experience

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City. – Michael Bloomberg

Category:
Experience

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody whos kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me. – Andrew Greeley

Category:
Experience

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else. – Joseph Campbell

Category:
Experience

Random Quotes

By all means lets be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. – Richard Dawkins

Category:
funny

Security is the priceless product of freedom. Only the strong can be secure, and only in freedom can men produce those material resources which can secure them from want at home and against aggression from abroad. – B. E. Hutchinson

Category:
Security

The heart that loves is always young. – Greek proverb

Category:
Heart

I feel my familys needs are a priority. Im not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family. – Susan Sarandon

Category:
Family