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“She felt everything too deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.”
-- Joyce Maynard

#World #Too Much
“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.”
-- Joyce Maynard

#Family #Mother #Children
“A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.”
-- Joyce Maynard

#Loyalty #Persons #Deserve
“The word NO, carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.”
-- Joyce Maynard

#Parent
“A good home must be made, not bought.”
-- Joyce Maynard

#Home #Made
“It's sad but true that if you focus your attention on housework and meal preparation and diapers, raising children does start to look like drudgery pretty quickly. On the other hand, if you see yourself as nothing less than your child's nurturer, role model, teacher, spiritual guide, and mentor, your days take on a very different cast.”
-- Joyce Maynard

#Spiritual #Teacher #Children
“A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.”
-- Joyce Maynard

#Home #Light #Track
“Before I had children I always wondered whether their births would be, for me, like the ultimate in gym class failures. And I discovered instead... that I'd finally found my sport.”
-- Joyce Maynard

#Sports #Children #Class
“It's not only children who grow. Parents do too...”
-- Joyce Maynard

#Children #Parent #Only Child
“To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.”
-- Joyce Maynard

#Stories #Share #Worthwhile
“In the event of an oxygen shortage on airplanes, mothers of young children are always reminded to put on their own oxygen mask first, to better assist the children with theirs. The same tactic is necessary on terra firma. There's no way of sustaining our children if we don't first rescue ourselves. I don't call that selfish behavior. I call it love.”
-- Joyce Maynard

#Mother #Children #Selfish
“The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.”
-- Joyce Maynard

#Silence #Stories #Wanted
“For a parent, it's hard to recognize the significance of your work when you're immersed in the mundane details. Few of us, as we run the bath water or spread the peanut butter on the bread, proclaim proudly, "I'm making my contribution to the future of the planet." But with the exception of global hunger, few jobs in the world of paychecks and promotions compare in significance to the job of parent.”
-- Joyce Maynard

#Running #Jobs #Water
“Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back.”
-- Joyce Maynard

#Home #Calling #Persons
“One of the sad realities of being a parent is that the same stuff you know is exciting, educational, and enriching in your child'slife is often messy, smelly and exhausting to deal with.”
-- Joyce Maynard

#Children #Educational #Reality
“There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.”
-- Joyce Maynard

#Running #Keeping Secrets #Toxic
“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.”
-- Joyce Maynard

#Girl #Writing #Men
“I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells me that twenty years from now not one of them will sit on some therapist's couch complaining because their mother didn't spend enough time vacuuming up glitter.”
-- Joyce Maynard

#Mother #Children #Years
“For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.”
-- Joyce Maynard

#Responsibility #Years #Pleasers
“I continued to protect him with my silence.”
-- Joyce Maynard

#Silence #Protect
“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.”
-- Joyce Maynard

#Pain #Thinking #Letters
“Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.”
-- Joyce Maynard

#Giving Up #Men #Age
“Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.”
-- Joyce Maynard

#Inspirational #Children #Perfect
“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.”
-- Joyce Maynard

#Writing #Long #Persons
“The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.”
-- Joyce Maynard

#Beautiful #Art #Fall
“I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.”
-- Joyce Maynard

#Believe #Stories #Fundamentals
“The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.”
-- Joyce Maynard

#Parent #Portraits #Complicated
“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.”
-- Joyce Maynard

#Home #Redemption #World
“[On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in the door.”
-- Joyce Maynard

#Home #Doors #People
“It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.”
-- Joyce Maynard

#Writing #People #Ugly

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