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I lived on the farm with my parents and grandparents. I had no playmates as a young child, and I was indulged. I helped my grandmother piece quilts, and we made pretty albums, an old-fashioned pastime. We cut poems and pictures out of magazines.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Albums Child Cut Farm Grandmother Grandparents Had Helped Lived Made Magazines Old-Fashioned Out Parents Pastime Pictures Piece Poems Pretty Young Young Child

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I rejected the traditional notion of 'women's work,' but I never thought of my early ambitions in a feminist way, exactly. Primarily I rebelled against apathy and limited education. I was rejecting a whole way of life that I thought trapped everyone.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Against Ambition Apathy Early Education Everyone Exactly Feminist Life Limited Never Notion Primarily Rebelled Rejected Rejecting Thought Traditional Trapped Way Whole Women Work

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I often say flippantly that the short story is... shorter; you can be done with it more easily. It's much less of a commitment of time and energy than a big project like a novel or long nonfiction book.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Big Book Commitment Done Easily Energy Less Like Long More Much Nonfiction Novel Often Project Say Short Short Story Story Than Time You

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Writing about where I was from and the people I knew was not something that would have occurred to me early on, because like so many Southerners of that period - the Sixties - I rejected those things when I went north.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: About Because Early Knew Like Many Me North Occurred People Period Rejected Sixties Something Southerners Things Those Where Would Writing

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I like to play with words and the sounds of words - that's extremely important to me.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Extremely Important Like Me Play Sounds Words

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In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: About Autobiographical Childhood Early Little Made Mystery Novel Seventies Started Story Writing

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When I was growing up on our 53-acre dairy farm, we were obsessed with food; it was the center of our lives. We planted it, grew it, harvested it, peeled it, cooked it, served it, consumed it - endlessly, day after day, season after season.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: After Center Consumed Cooked Dairy Day Endlessly Farm Food Grew Growing Growing Up Lives Obsessed Our Our Lives Planted Season Served Up Were

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Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Anxiety Crop Failure Farmers Fear Food Fraught Girl Like Lived Mercy Weather Were Working

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During the Cold War, workers proudly contributed to national defense, but the carelessness and haste in handling toxic waste created a nightmare of pollution for subsequent generations.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Carelessness Cold Cold War Created Defense Generations Handling Haste National National Defense Nightmare Pollution Proudly Subsequent Toxic War Waste Workers

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Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Exciting Feel Field Minds Most Must Physicists World

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: May 1st, 1940

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