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" I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my mid-twenties. "

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" Every choice you make has higher stakes - or that's how it feels. "

" Just because you are alive does not mean you have to give life. "

" I think I prefer writing books because the work of art begins and ends with you - it's easier to know if you're doing it right, as opposed to writing a play and then waiting around for somebody else to complete it. "

" Nonfiction, to me, feels like an argument, whereas a novel is like a series of questions. "

" Women without children can help mothers, and we can just be all in this together. "

" In my experience, women who are taken seriously take themselves seriously. It's not what you wear. "

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" I remember where I was when I wrote that story, 'Mermaid in a Jar.' I was at a boyfriend's, and he was the only boy I ever dated who was rich, and his parents had a ski chalet, and I just didn't know how to break up with him, so I decided I would be celibate. "

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" We're so sure of what our unlived lives would have been like that we feel guilty for not living them - for not living up to our potential. "

" I don't think 'Motherhood' is a map for women. I would never say that it's a template for every woman in response to her biology. "

" The thing to do when you're feeling ambivalent is to wait. "

" A woman will always be made to feel like a criminal, whatever choice she makes, however hard she tries. Mothers feel like criminals. Non-mothers do, too. "

" There is a kind of sadness in not wanting the things that give so many other people their life's meaning. There can be sadness at not living out a more universal story - the supposed life cycle. "

" I saw what was wonderful about human companionship. Before that, I was quite content to be alone, to be a solitary wandering person, and I thought I always would be. Love changed that. "

" My feminism is just part of my being - a part of my understanding of the world. "

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" You think you're writing the most important book, you think you're writing the most stupid book, and you never really know before it's done that it's going to be done. "

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" I'm happy that I wrote 'How Should a Person Be?' and I wouldn't have written that exact book if we had just done the play. So much of the book is about the anxiety of failure - the failure of the play and the failure of the divorce and the failure of not feeling like a good person. "

" An artist's love for what they create is what creates love. "

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" I wanted to talk to a lot of women about their experiences along the path to motherhood - or along the path to not being a mother. "

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