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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
Galbraith's First Law: Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above.
— Anne Roiphe
Busy sheep achieve more than idle wolves.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
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
It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.
— Anne Roiphe
She was monumentally, conspicuously damaged in a way that was, to us then, ineffably chic.
— Katie Roiphe
Facebook is the novel we are all writing
— Katie Roiphe
Only priests and politicians benefit from a people's ignorance.
— Ki Longfellow
I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it.
— Anne Roiphe
I have to try hard - but I do succeed - to not burst out laughing when he compares my breasts to a perfectly cooked creme brulee - 'souple mais ferme.
— Frances Gendlin
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
I've never wanted a slave. But I have always wanted a bother. I want you to be free, Coal. You can repay me by staying that way.
— Christina Daley
For us there is little to say. After all, we know that death belongs to life, that it is unavoidable and comes when it wants.
— Katie 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
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
Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.
— 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
What are you lookin' at me for? I'm a ray of fuckin' sunshine.
— Shelly Laurenston
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
You give the money where you want it.
— T. Boone Pickens
God is a God of Lovingkindness.
— Anne Roiphe
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