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"I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along."
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"Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person."
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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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"Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Being is more important than doing."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told."
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"Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people."
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"I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?"
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"But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world."
People
"I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along."
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"My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world."
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"Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind."
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"Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women."
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"In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over."
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"It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is."
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"I used to not back down from a challenge."
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