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Octavia Butler

"Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you."

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"Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you."

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Donna Grant

"Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal."

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Donna Grant

"Things had improved after he was born. We both loved him with such fervor that it was impossible that some wouldn't splash back on us."

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Donna Grant

"Two ways to treat a girl: Make her feel as a princess Or Make her feel as a slave."

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Donna Grant

"Marriage is a sacred-commitment."

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Donna Grant

"Your relationship with God has to be alive: Learn to be His child."

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Donna Grant

"Be the "Liker""If you want to be liked, BE THE LIKER! This was some of the best advice my enlightened mother ever gave me. Throughout my childhood, teen years, and adulthood, this golden nugget of simple wisdom empowered me to take personal responsibility for developing friendships. When you want to reach out, make new friends, and increase your likeability factor, step up and "like others first. They will usually mirror your initiative and like you back."

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Donna Grant

"A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards."

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Donna Grant

"We are all connected in spirit, in love and in faith."

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Donna Grant

"Parent greatest gift to their children is their bond of love."

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Donna Grant

"It was too perfect to last,' so I am tempted to say of our marriage. But it can be meant in two ways. It may be grimly pessimistic - as if God no sooner saw two of His creatures happy than He stopped it ('None of that here!'). As if He were like the Hostess at the sherry-party who separates two guests the moment they show signs of having got into a real conversation. But it could also mean 'This had reached its proper perfection. This had become what it had in it to be. Therefore of course it would not be prolonged.' As if God said, 'Good; you have mastered that exercise. I am very pleased with it. And now you are ready to go on to the next."

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Octavia Butler
"While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything."

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Octavia Butler
"No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest."

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Octavia Butler
"Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish."

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Octavia Butler
"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."

Friendship

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Octavia Butler
"A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't."

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Octavia Butler
"Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere."

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Octavia Butler
"So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy."

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Octavia Butler
"Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about."

Education

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Octavia Butler
"I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining."

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Octavia Butler
"I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place I was writing about, but that gave me a feeling of the experience of being black in a time and place where it was very difficult to be black."

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