“I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age,...” — Joyce Maynard Quote

“I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.”

“I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.”

“I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.”

“Major actions by courageous and wise men will be necessary to avoid our continuing to blunder into the space age like unenlightened and selfish idiots.”

“My dad's Israeli. He was born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews. Then, at age two, his parents wanted to move to their homeland and he grew up in Israel. I've been there twice, once as a baby and once when I was 15.”

“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.”