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 MaynardThe big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.
Joyce MaynardAlthough Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on.
Joyce MaynardLong after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.
Joyce MaynardNo, I said. I didn't remember that. There was so much to remember, sometimes the best thing was to forget.
Joyce Maynard