Quotes by Rona Jaffe

About Rona Jaffe:

Rona Jaffe was an American novelist, who published numerous works from 1958-2003. She may have been best known for her controversial novel, Mazes and Monsters (1981). During the 1960s, she also wrote cultural pieces for Cosmopolitan as the new editor, Helen Gurley Brown, markedly changed its character.
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It's amazing how kids can be brutalized into a mold in witch they it right back to the weaker one and never think of escaping from the whole filthy mess.

Rona Jaffe

We keep making decisions, every day, half without thinking, half against our will. If we don't fight back, if we allow ourselves to change, to be changed, then once it's done we have to do other things, and on and on until the person we wanted to be ...

Rona Jaffe

She was beginning to have that feeling that comes after midnight, of one's thoughts opening out, flowering, groping out loud for some new discovery, some new truth that is really as old as all the hundreds of years girls have been confiding to one an...

Rona Jaffe

It was funny, she thought, that before she had ever had a job she had always thought of an office as a place where people came to work, but now it seemed as if it was a place where they also brought their private lives for everyone else to look at, p...

Rona Jaffe

Author Bio

  • NameRona Jaffe
  • DescriptionNovelist
  • BornJune 12, 1931
  • DiedDecember 30, 2005
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor; Novelist