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The hilarity or brilliance of a forwarded link is inversely proportional to the number of people it's sent to.

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For millennia, human beings have been finding new ways to look at the world through each others' eyes: from projecting ourselves onto the characters in novels or movies to dressing up in costume to devouring the details of some celebrity's life in 'Hello' or 'OK.'

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Competitive sports may be where exercise becomes 'fun' for children who are good at it, but for those who are less talented, it is where exercise becomes not only physically demanding but also emotionally painful and socially humiliating.

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The thing about having true fans, it seems, is that they remain loyal to their idea of what the work meant to them. And that might make them more exacting than the toughest studio executive or publishing boss.

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I am someone who really would like to see more women in government, but Palin makes me cringe every time I hear about her.

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I love books. I want to read them, and I want to own them so they're always available to be reread.

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Sometimes you feel like the people who invest in hate are winning. Then you just want to talk about love and what it really means to love yourself.

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No one should ever feel obliged to speak or to put themselves out publicly online, but I do think it's a good thing to do. The more of us who are women, making our work and just going 'Here I am, here's my work,' the easier it gets for everybody. It's a good thing to do.

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I like things that take you by the hand and say, 'You think you know about this - you think you understand it - but there's so much that you don't.'

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The women's movement gave me a set of tools to think about things like my body and how people react to me and the way that my dating life was going. It's a very practical movement - yes, it's about issues like how we can get more women MPs elected, but it's also about how feminism affects things like your relationship.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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