Anne Roiphe — Journalist born on December 25, 1935,

Anne Roiphe is an American writer and journalist. She is best known as a first-generation feminist, and author of the novel Up The Sandbox , which was filmed as a starring vehicle for Barbra Streisand in 1972. In 1996, Salon called the book "a feminist classic.".. (wikipedia)

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.
Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.
Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.
I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and the why of your choices and the what has happened that you know and the what that you don't know is really riveting, and psychoanalysts share my wonder at how it all unfolds.