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"Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love."
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"I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves."
Woman

"Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love."
Age

"Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power."
Power

"Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful."
Experience

"I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level."
Ability

"The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval."
Fear

"Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home."
Home

"If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life."
Life

"I continued to protect him with my silence."
Silence

"A person who deserves my loyalty receives it."
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"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."
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"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."
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"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
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"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."
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"Age merely shows what children we remain."
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"Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age."
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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
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"The golden age is before us, not behind us."
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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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"Not even old age knows how to love death."
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