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• Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we are in need of *at the time that we are…
• Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a…
• Every work [of literature] has both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the…
• A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and bear witness…
• What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge
• You are the instrument of your own illumination.
• Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful competition for the whitest,…
• The memoirist, like the poet and the novelist, must engage the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it's…
• What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make…
• Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the workingclass. At a…

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