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Joyce Maynard

"It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself."

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"It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself."

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Donna Grant

"Big Brother is watching you."

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Donna Grant

"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."

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Donna Grant

"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."

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Donna Grant

"Blessed is the womb that born you."

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Donna Grant

"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."

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Donna Grant

"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."

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Donna Grant

"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

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Donna Grant

"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."

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Donna Grant

"Children are angels."

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Donna Grant

"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."

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Joyce Maynard
"At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood."

Home

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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."

Power

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Joyce Maynard
"I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes."

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

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

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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
"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
"Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones."

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Joyce Maynard
"Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals."

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

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