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"When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me."
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"Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is."
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"I love talking the way Trappists love silence."
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"Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing."
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"Every woman's heart cannot be opened with words, sometimes you need to use your hands."
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"Remember this, posting pictures are like speaking words, you cannot take them back."
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"Everybody talks, but there is no conversation."
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"Take care of your words and the words will take care of you."
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"Coat your words with honey if you want to catch bees."
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"Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding."
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"Silence is an arguement hard to refute."
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"Make a difference about something other than yourselves."
Empathy
"I loved the geography part. Learning about that made me want to read."
Education
"Passion is never enough neither is skill."
Excellence
"I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that."
Feminism
"Guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness."
Identity
"I didn't plan on either children or writing. Once I realized that writing satisfied me in some enormous way, I had to make adjustments. The writing was always marginal in terms of time when the children were small. But it was major in terms of my head. I always thought that women could do a lot of things. All the women I knew did nine or ten things at one time. I always understood that women worked, they went to church, they managed their houses, they managed somebody else's houses, they raised their children, they raised somebody else's children, they taught. I wouldn't say it's not hard, but why wouldn't it be? All important things are hard."
Feminism
"One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to."
Politics
"Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn't even know your name scrubbed your back. Witches could sound like Katharine Hepburn and your best friend could try to strangle you. Smack in the middle of an orchid there might be a blob of jello and inside a Mickey Mouse doll, a fixed and radiant star."
Trust
"Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth."
Empathy
"I like marriage. The idea."
Love
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