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How did all that revolutionary talk of the seventies land us in a place where being female means playing dumb and looking good?
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Life is about deciding what matters. It's about the fantasy that determines the reality.
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Was this what it meant to grow up, this vast loneliness?
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The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.
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I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback.
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Americans see everything too simply-a good guy, a bad guy, does he have a white hat or a black hat? But it's the wrong question.
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If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me.
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Death and his zealous minions - dread, despair, disease - can find you anywhere at all, and the armor plate of youth will no longer protect you.
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I'm forty-two years old - which is a lot more like middle age than forty or even forty-one.
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Maybe that, really, is as good a definition as any of an artist in the world: a ruthless person.
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I wanted him to reassure me, and when I saw he wasn't going to, I thought, This is when the shit hits the fan.
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Her self, then, was represented in her books.
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Who is he who walks always beside you? No-fucking-body, thank you very much. I walk alone.
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That's so her. You know, torn between Big Ideas and a party. She's always been that way.
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From the beginning, then, but briefly.
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There's a period of accommodation before you are formally and
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Geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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Maybe, instead, I'll set the world on fire. I just might.
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When, as a woman, you make yourself the work of art, and when you are then what everyone looks at, then whatever else, you aren't alone.
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It shows how long-lived anger is, the desire for vengeance: it has a nuclear half-life, and it teaches people patience in the most sinister way.
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The simplest and least flattering explanation was always the right one, I'd learned over the years. But
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I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.
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Reza, in spite of the tears caught in his lashes like raindrops on a spider's web, did not cry.
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I want to make a difference. But get a job? I worry that will make the ordinary, like everybody else.
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He was playing on the climbing structure by himself - or "by his own," as the children sometimes charmingly put it.
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Does Being Happy simply Create More Time, in the way that Being Sad, as we all know, slows time and thickens it, like cornstarch in a sauce?),
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