"Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power."

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"Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power."

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"The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell."

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"The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art."

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"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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"I continued to protect him with my silence."

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"Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones."

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"I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level."

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"For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously."

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