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" There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business. "

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" Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people. "

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" Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it. "

" I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object. "

" There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't. "

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" I don't feel I'm as good a mum as my mum was. "

" I have built my world through Native American mythology. "

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" My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn. "

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