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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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"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."
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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."
Act
"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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"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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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
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"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."
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"I think it's a lame excuse for a lot of these rappers to say they only call girls bitches or hos because they act like that. It doesn't make them right."
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"After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it."
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"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."
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"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."
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"Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone."
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"Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts."
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"And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America."
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"The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects."
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