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All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.

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I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.

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A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

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When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.

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A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.

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The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.

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I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.

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There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.

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I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.

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I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 28th, 1908

Died: November 17th, 1995

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