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" Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. "

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" There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge. "

" I don't think there's just one person for everyone. It would be very hard for me to be with a guy who was not bright or funny. And he'd have to see the absurdities of the world, not exactly as I see them necessarily. "

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" It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone. "

" You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. "

" At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55. "

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" Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with. "

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" The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise. "

" I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing. "

" I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook. "

" I do a lot of teaching... and so I think I know how hard it is for young writers, how they have to work two jobs to survive. "

" Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. "

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" Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it. "

" Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. "

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" Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. "

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" Women are individuals in parenting, and why not? "

" I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose. "

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" I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers. "

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