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Edna O'Brien

"Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire."

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"The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed."

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"Writing is like carrying a fetus."

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"Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul."

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