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"The day my father came to claim me, my mother did not wish for me to go. 'She is a girl,' she said, 'and I do not think that she is yours. I had a thousand other men.' He tossed his spear at my feet and gave my mother the back of his hand across the face, so she began to weep. 'Girl or boy, we fight our battles,' he said, 'but the gods let us choose our weapons.' He pointed to the spear, then to my mother's tears, and I picked up the spear."
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"A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two."
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"Ungodliness has always declared war on godliness."
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"Girl or boy, we fight our battles. But the God's let us choose our weapons."
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"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything."
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"What is important is not to fight, but to fight the right enemy."
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"A battle is developing between them' I say developing, because it's not yet on."
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"Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won."
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"No battle is worth fighting except the last one."
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"On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle."
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"I was a terrible English student."
Personal
"Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it."
People
"You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation."
Hope
"Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built."
Research
"I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do."
Joy
"I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps."
Writing
"I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer."
Personal
"My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953."
Battle
"I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves."
Work
"It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find."
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