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"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."
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"I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future."

"I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned."

"I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was?"

"We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy."

"I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill."

"I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature."

"Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries."
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