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For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.

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I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level.

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I continued to protect him with my silence.

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I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.

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I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?

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If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.

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If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.

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It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects.

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Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.

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Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 5th, 1953

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