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I think that it's really important to go away and come back.

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We're also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.

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But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.

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What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.

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I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object.

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Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.

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The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.

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American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

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In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

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But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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