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Holly Near

"My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies."

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"My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies."

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"Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed."

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"Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it's my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me."

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"I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to."

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"Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live."

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"And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion."

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"I'm always happy when I'm cleaning, and besides, I had just found out that I was going to have a baby."

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"I can't discriminate? Oh, that's ripe, coming from a straight white man. What's the matter, baby doesn't feel like he belongs? Well why don't you try a place that was set up just for you? Like the world!"

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"When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained."
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"Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point."
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