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Ok, here goes: I'm going to see how many people I can offend by suggesting that maybe many little gay boys, like many little girls, are made up of sugar and spice and everything nice.

~Alice Dreger

Topics: Boy Everything Gay Girl Goes Going Here How How Many People Like Little Little Girls Made Many Maybe Nice Offend Ok People See Spice Sugar Suggesting Up I Can

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I'm a big fan of being able to hold those long shots and use space. I don't know, I think everything's so quick cut these days, as if films are too afraid that the audience is going to get bored instead of relaxing and trusting their work.

~Alice Englert

Topics: Able Afraid Audience Being Big Big Fan Bored Cut Days Everything Fan Films Get Going Hold Instead Know Long Quick Relaxing Shots Space Think Those Too Trusting Use Work I Think

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It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

~Alice Hoffman

Topics: Another Break Escape Go Going Great Me My Own Own Take Way World

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The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.

~Alice Hoffman

Topics: About Before Bodies Came Castle Confronted Fairy Fairy Tale Finding Going Her How Know Often Original People Really Room She Sister Tale Think Thinking Truth Wives Youngest

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No one looks at a baby and says, 'You are going to be a great novelist, and you really need to start writing now.' Something in us says: 'This is what I must do.'

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Baby Going Great Looks Must Need Novelist Now Really Says Something Start Us Writing You

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I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being able to write a novel with just those two things.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Able Anywhere Being Going Having Just Legal Like Novel Original Pad Pen Romance Things Those Two World Write

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Any adjective you put before the noun 'writer' is going to be limiting in some way. Whether it's feminist writer, Jewish writer, Russian writer, or whatever.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Adjective Any Before Feminist Going Jewish Limiting Noun Put Russian Some Way Whatever Whether Writer You

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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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Why do I like to write short stories? Well, I certainly didn't intend to. I was going to write a novel. And still! I still come up with ideas for novels. And I even start novels. But something happens to them. They break up. I look at what I really want to do with the material, and it never turns out to be a novel.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Break Break Up Certainly Come Even Going Happens Ideas Intend Like Look Material Never Novel Novels Out Really Short Short Stories Something Start Still Stories Them Turns Up Want Well Why Write

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I think if we get freedom for women, then they are probably going to do a lot of things that I wish they wouldn't do. But it seems to me that isn't our business to say what they should do with it. It is our business to see that they get it.

~Alice Paul

Topics: Business Freedom Get Going Lot Me Our Say See Seems Should Then Things Think Wish Women I Think I Wish

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