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" I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells. "

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" The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity. "

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" I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?' "

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