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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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"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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"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 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?"
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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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"Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home."
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"It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects."
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"I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes."
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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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