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A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears. — Anne Roiphe

I'd never argue with a naked woman. — Sylvain Reynard

I can't survive,' he once told me of his refusal to come indoors,'if I can't hear the orchestra the way I like to hear it. — Steve Lopez

Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies. — Anne Roiphe

New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. — Jay Leno

People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above. — Anne Roiphe

Power is also like love, easier to experience than to define or measure, but no less real for that. — Joseph S. Nye Jr.

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life. — Anne Roiphe

What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter. — Anne Roiphe

Murder - the wish to do murder - is something quite different. It - how shall I say? - it defies God. — Agatha Christie

I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough. — Anne Roiphe

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

You really can't say things that upset someone in print and expect them to be nice and leave you their money. That's just not reasonable. — Anne Roiphe

If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all. — Anne Roiphe

It took a rare person to appreciate a good Elmer Fudd line. — Alyssa Day

Determined, I rise
and face the dawn with resolve.
This time I will win. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it. — Anne Roiphe

I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else. — Maisie Williams

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

Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around. — Anne Roiphe

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. — Anne Roiphe

But he's the most familiar thing in this house, and I fall asleep better, listening to Baz breathe, than I have since winter break started. — Rainbow Rowell

The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests. — Matt Taibbi

I've said it's hard. Here's how hard: everybody I know who wades deep enough into memory's waters drowns a little. — Mary Karr

I feel that the world needs writers. We need to know what's really going on. — Anne Roiphe

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

I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes. — Anne Roiphe

I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world. — Anne Roiphe

You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note. — Anne Roiphe

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

Fascism: awful stench of saw and axe. — Michel Leiris

God is a God of Lovingkindness. — Anne Roiphe

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. — Peter De Vries

One of the things about parents and children is that there is no way that you go through this without there being mutual anger. — Anne Roiphe

Now we've got the cables. We've got talk radio. We've got the bloggers. I hate the bloggers. — John McCain