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"The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell."
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"I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves."
Woman
"Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love."
Age
"It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself."
Family
"Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power."
Power
"Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful."
Experience
"I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?"
People
"I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level."
Ability
"My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?"
Money
"The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art."
Art
"The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval."
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"When you are truly silent, the whole existence speaks to you."
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"Shut lips, sleeping faces,Every stopped machine,The dumb and littered placesWhere crowds have been:.All silences rejoice,Weep (loudly or low),Speak-but with the voiceOf whom, I do not know."
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"Every person interprets the silence that surrounds him or her. The eternal silence of the universe that we exist in is terrifying because it forces each of to ask what our purpose is, why are we here, and what should I do?"
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"Silence might be a shout for the truth. It might be the speech that someday, in its truest, most uncontaminated, unadulterated state, all will be revealed."
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"I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound trivial, so I just nodded."
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"Silence is the best music when you are in need of silence and music is the best silence when you are in need of music!"
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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
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"Sometimes You Just Gotta Stay Silent Cause No Words Can Explain The Shit Thats Going On In Your Mind And Heart."
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"I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words."
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"Be silent, but let your silence become the loudest message of love and compassion."
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