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"I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult."
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"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."
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"Every woman is just a different kind of problem."
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"I live in a house with four women. Just shut up and say, Yes, ma'am."
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"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."
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"If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe."
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"Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!"
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"I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman."
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"I hate women because they always know where things are."
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"Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances."
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"I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?"
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"Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative."
Woman
"An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit."
Woman
"For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words."
Success
"World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years."
Love
"We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary."
Now
"When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do in this situation?'"
Character
"Most of my stories have some basis in fact."
Fact
"With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then."
Chance
"The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying."
Writing
"I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back."
People
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