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When you free women so they can choose to have or not to have, or to conceive - that's something that, for millennia, women couldn't do. Biology was, in many ways, destiny. We wouldn't be talking about gender if women…

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There may be an art to conversation, and some are better at it than others, but conversation's virtue lies in randomness and possibility: people, without a plan, could speak a spontaneous, unexpected truth, because revelation rules. Telling words recur in this smart, generous conversation between Stephen Andrews and Gregg Bordowitz: patience, responsibility, feminism, ethics, cosmology, AIDS, gift, freedom, mortality.

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I'd studied English literature and American history, but the English literature, which I thought was going to be helpful to me in an immediate…

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I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition.

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Laughing and crying are very similar. Sometimes people go from laughing to crying, or crying to laughing. I remember being at someone's wedding and…

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[Reality] isn't simply the so-called world that you're in. Your reality is a much larger one that takes in all matter of identification and…

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I write about what I'm thinking about. I write about what is bothering me or what is a political, aesthetic, or ethical issue or…

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My friends and I sometimes laugh at each other that there is so much maintenance of a body. I paid no attention when I…

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I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all.

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In a practical sense, pain kept me from sitting down as much, so that sometimes I would have to stand to write. Not that…

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I'm bothered, as a reader, when I feel the writer is filling in too much. Again, whether it's nonfiction or fiction, I think writers…

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It wasn't that I wanted to be an artist. But when I took my first drawing class with the painter Doug Ohlson, I could…

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I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all. I'm interested in the ways that I think people want to relate.

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