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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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"Sometimes to be at home is like a nightmare by Stephen King."

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Donna Grant

"Mars will not be our new home; it will be our new hotel! Because for a new place to be our own home, we need to see the things we used to see: An autumn lake, a bird singing in the misty morning or even desert camels walking in the sunset!"

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Donna Grant

"One is not to win the world, he has to win the home (family)."

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Donna Grant

"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."

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Donna Grant

"Nothing else has the power to calm, comfort, and care for you better than home."

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Donna Grant

"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."

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Donna Grant

"A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing."

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Donna Grant

"Sometimes home is where the heart is, Eddie thought randomly. I believe that. Old Bobby Frost said home's the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Unfortunately, it's also the place where, once you're in there, they don't ever want to let you out."

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Donna Grant

"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past."

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Donna Grant

"I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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

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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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