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Joyce Maynard

"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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"Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity."
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"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?"
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"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."
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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."
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"For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously."
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"Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals."
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"I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level."
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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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"If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life."
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"Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love."
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