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To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.

~Amity Gaige

Topics: Accepting Me Recognizing Self-Esteem Self-Love Who You

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In the best writers, the outward-reaching interest in the 'found subject' leads back at a hairpin to some uncomfortable inner recognition that the writer has journeyed very far to see; he comes home half-dead.

~Amity Gaige

Topics: Back Best Far Found He Home Inner Interest Leads Recognition See Some Subject Uncomfortable Very Writer Writers

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I do think, in general, children are so perceptive, and they watch and they get so much, and that's wonderful. And it's also difficult for them because they see so much, but they don't understand.

~Amity Gaige

Topics: Also Because Children Difficult General Get Much Perceptive See Them Think Understand Watch Wonderful

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Other than a short article I read in 2008 when the real story broke, I have not followed the Clark Rockefeller case, and 'Schroder' is not a novelization of that story.

~Amity Gaige

Topics: Article Broke Case Clark Followed Other Read Real Rockefeller Short Story Than

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I love writing letters. In order to write a novel in first person, I think I needed an addressee.

~Amity Gaige

Topics: First Letters Love Needed Novel Order Person Think Write Writing I Think I Love

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I researched children's rights, divorce law, and parental kidnapping. Millions of children and parents are touched by the inadequacy of the legal system to deal with the human heart.

~Amity Gaige

Topics: Children Deal Divorce Heart Human Human Heart Kidnapping Law Legal Legal System Millions Parental Parents Rights System Touched

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Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others.

~Amity Gaige

Topics: Bad Been Oh Others Poet Pretty

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I wanted - and still want - to tell my mother's story. She fled Stalin's army in 1944, leaving Latvia, which was to be occupied by the Soviets for the next 50 years, and arrived to the U.S. when she was 11.

~Amity Gaige

Topics: Army Arrived Leaving Mother Next Occupied She Soviets Stalin Still Story Tell Want Wanted Which Years

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I think marriage and family keeps being written about because that's where we keep our reputations with ourselves - I mean, we can't quite slip the truths we reveal about ourselves at home.

~Amity Gaige

Topics: About Because Being Family Home Keep Keeps Marriage Mean Our Ourselves Quite Reputations Reveal Slip Think Truths Where Written I Think

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'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' is, to my mind, a work of perfect genius.

~Amity Gaige

Topics: Afraid Genius Mind Perfect Virginia Woolf Work

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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