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"There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know."
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"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."
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"Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming."
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"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."
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"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."
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"Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out."
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"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."
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"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."
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"He who hates vice hates men."
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"Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it."
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"He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man."
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"I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer."
Thought
"Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him."
Love
"At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age."
Age
"I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia."
Leadership
"The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women."
Money
"I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real."
People
"I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons."
Poetry
"There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know."
Man
"I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience."
Conscience
"I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night."
Writing
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