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Everyone wants to be liked; everyone wants approval. No one likes being ignored.

~Mallory Ortberg

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I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.

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With a few exceptions, birds are not to be trusted; it is not normal to have such soft, vulnerable bodies bookended with slashing beaks and razor-sharp claws. It is as unnatural as an armed marshmallow.

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There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'

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Did you know that, pound for pound, the moose is the leanest ruminant on Earth? It's true. Moose are very in tune with their natural surroundings.

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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.

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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.

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I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.

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I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.

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I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 28th, 1986

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