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Joyce Maynard

American

November 5, 1953

Writer

If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.

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Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.

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Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

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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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Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother 'worked' at anything besides raising her children.

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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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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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