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"I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference."
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"You can't escape the existential suffering of life as long as you are living. So get used to it."

"Your skin is your skin. Your legs are your legs. Your hair is your hair. Your smile is your smile. Your past is your past. You can waste your life hating these things, but you may as well learn to accept them. Both routes are difficult and full of pain, but with acceptance, you will be happy one day, while with hatred, you never will."

"Until I realize that it's all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it."

"Don't resent a woman for who she is not, love her for who she is."

"It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important."

"Accept yourself in a way you are created."

"You'll see so much more beauty in the world if you can accept that there is good in every little thing around you."

"You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them."

"You are too blessed to be worrying about your imperfections. Your original self is perfect in God's eyes, and His opinions will always matter the most."

"Life is all I have, it is enough!"
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"I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth."

"Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's as if another writer is on the scene."

"I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any legal matters, for example, I have to do a lot of research online."

"I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me."

"I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?"

"I enjoy what I do every minute of the day, even when the going gets tough. When I first began writing, I used to work at a desk in the bedroom, of a small development house. My three sons all under the age of 3 would come running in and out of the room every minute."

"I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones."
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