"My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12."

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"My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12."

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"Big Brother is watching you."

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"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."

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"Blessed is the womb that born you."

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"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."

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"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

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"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."

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"I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love."

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"As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system."

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"Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters."

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"My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding."

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