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"Saving others is always more important than saving yourself. It has to be, or none of us would do any good."

"My entire life, I've never been able to understand the concept of not being happy or excited when others were successful or had something good happen to them. It quite honestly is a concept that I cannot grasp."

"It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself."

"Serving others is one of the bases for you to have or to enjoy a fullness of purpose in life."

"No one can usurp the heights...But those to whom the miseries of the worldAre misery, and will not let them rest."

"There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work."

"What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people?"
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"Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard."


"You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what you're going to do with it."


"I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood."


"I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge."


"I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me."
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