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A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

~Alice Miller

Topics: About Child Circumstance Concerned Cooks Cough Fact Feeling Grasp Helps Hidden His Homework Inner Inner World Kindly More Mother Never Same Some Than Too Wall Well Who World

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Housework never really bothered me... what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be your life... when you're a housewife, you are constantly interrupted. You have no space in your life. It isn't the fact that you do the laundry.

~Alice Munro

Topics: About Bothered Constantly Expected Fact Housewife Housework Interrupted Later Laundry Life Me Never Really Space You Your

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Writers are always writing about infidelity. It's so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy, the complications, the finding that you thought you were one person but you're also this other person. The innocent life and the guilty life. My God, it's just full of stuff for a writer. I doubt it will ever go out of fashion.

~Alice Munro

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I don't think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I'm enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

~Alice Munro

Topics: About Been Courage Did Enjoying Feel Go Her How How Much Life Like Living Me Mother Much Must Needed Often Regret Relationship Rewards She Something Sometimes Terrible Think Way Were I Think

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I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls. I don't ever think about what kind of fiction I write or what I am writing about or what I am trying to write about. When I'm writing, what I do is I think about a story that I want to tell.

~Alice Munro

Topics: About Am Any Connecting Ever Everything Falls Fiction Just Kind Never Out Plan Start Story Tell Theme Think Trying Want Way Write Writing I Think I Am I Write

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The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

~Alice Munro

Topics: About Children Come Deep Going Gone Half Here Home Latter Life Material Nursing Nursing Home Parents Personal Still Them Visit Want Write You Your

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In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.

~Alice Munro

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Some of the stories I admire seem to zero in on one particular time and place. There isn't a rule about this. But there's a tidy sense about many stories I read. In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.

~Alice Munro

Topics: About Admire Back Cover Forward Jump Lot Many My Own Own Particular Place Read Rule Seem Sense Some Sometimes Stories Straightforward Tend Tidy Time Very Way Work Zero

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Naturally, my stories are about women - I'm a woman. I don't know what the term is for men who write mostly about men. I'm not always sure what is meant by 'feminist.' In the beginning, I used to say, 'Well, of course I'm a feminist.' But if it means that I follow a kind of feminist theory, or know anything about it, then I'm not.

~Alice Munro

Topics: About Always Anything Beginning Course Feminist Follow In The Beginning Kind Know Means Meant Men Mostly Naturally Say Stories Sure Term Then Theory Used Well Who Woman Women Write

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Charlotte Bronte was writing about sex. I supposed Jane Austen was, too. Where do you get a hero like Darcy unless you are writing about sex?

~Alice Munro

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