"For me, writing something down was the only road out."

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"For me, writing something down was the only road out."

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"I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs."

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"If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all."

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"My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations."

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"She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages."

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