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" A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. "
Terribly
Writing
Civilized
" Don't make a threat and then not do it. "
Then
Threat
Make
" Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair. "
Fair
Crazy
Mean
" How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective. "
Streets
Weird
Well
" I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me. "
Gender
Defining
Me
" If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect. "
Business
Best
You
" I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy. "
Living
Fearless
Time
" I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us - and the feeling of ritual the classes had. "
Black
Pink
Musicians
" In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time. "
Drive
Time
Woman
" I still consider myself a feminist. "
Myself
Consider
Feminist
" I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character. "
Character
Smart
Style
" It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else. "
Wife
Anything
Discipline
" I was always inventing characters and making up stories. "
Stories
Up
Always
" I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political. "
Work
Characterize
However
" My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world. "
Always
Responsible
World
" My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself. "
Pretty
Myself
Mother
" Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would. "
People
Society
Trying
" Some girls are taught to be sexy. "
Taught
Some
Sexy
" Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that. "
People
Life
World
" So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is. "
Character
Control
Child
" There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting. "
Hurting
No Rules
Just
" To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently. "
Me
See
Someone
" When I was pregnant, I felt filled with life, and I felt really happy. I ate well, and I slept well. I felt much more useful than I'd ever felt before. "
Well
Much
More
" Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life. "
Me
Life
Writing
" Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way. "
Some
Personal
Way
" You have to defend your honor. And your family. "
Defend
Family
You
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