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Joyce Maynard

"I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?"

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"I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?"

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Joyce Maynard
"I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves."

Woman

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Joyce Maynard
"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."

Experience

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Joyce Maynard
"I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level."

Ability

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Joyce Maynard
"The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval."

Fear

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Joyce Maynard
"Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home."

Home

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Joyce Maynard
"If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life."

Life

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Joyce Maynard
"I continued to protect him with my silence."

Silence

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Joyce Maynard
"A person who deserves my loyalty receives it."

Loyalty

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Joyce Maynard
"The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn."

Parenting

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Joyce Maynard
"I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story."

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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

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Personal Development

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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

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"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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