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" I don't know if I've ever cared much what others think. "

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" Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52. "

" It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are. "

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" Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. "

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" We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone. "

" I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored. "

" Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities. "

" I've always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose. "

" I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it. "

" Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams. "

" Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. "

" There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life. "

" War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet. "

" It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try. "

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" I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don't understand what is going on. "

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