For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.

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• Joyce Maynard:

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

• Joyce Maynard:

  I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process

• Joyce Maynard:

  I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level.

• Joyce Maynard:

  I continued to protect him with my silence.

• Joyce Maynard:

  I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act,

• Joyce Maynard:

  I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it

• Joyce Maynard:

  If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old

• Joyce Maynard:

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

• Joyce Maynard:

  It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects.

• Joyce Maynard:

  Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the be