Quotes from Anne Roiphe

We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.

Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a painting family, we would paint.

Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.

It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.