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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"

"Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children."

"What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country."

"The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman."

"Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile."
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"It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles."

"The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me."

"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."

"One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read."

"The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading."

"I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well."

"It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others."
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