"Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love."
― Joyce Maynard
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Age
More From Joyce Maynard
- "Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men’s stories about wars, business, power."
- "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."
- "If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, that’s fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldn’t! They shouldn’t read my work!"
More In Age
- "Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God."― Oliver Wendell Holmes
- "I love things that age well – things that don’t date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best."― Giorgio Armani
- "To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love."― Alan Bleasdale