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Sharon Olds

"The decision for me was whether to have "The Father" be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else."

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"The decision for me was whether to have "The Father" be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"Blessed is the womb that born you."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."

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Donna Grant

"Children are angels."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers."

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Donna Grant

"Wrapped in a mother's love is the most beautiful and safest place on earth for a child."

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Donna Grant

"Make your wife happier, children wiser, yourself kinder, and you will make your life better."

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Sharon Olds
"The decision for me was whether to have "The Father" be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else."

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Sharon Olds
"The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time."

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Sharon Olds
"When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time."

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Sharon Olds
"I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type."

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Sharon Olds
"It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it."

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Sharon Olds
"At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work."

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Sharon Olds
"This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force."

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Sharon Olds
"Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in."

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Sharon Olds
"Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me."

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Sharon Olds
"I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think."

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