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My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
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I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance... Maybe my questions matter.
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I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.
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I used to not back down from a challenge.
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Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.
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I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.
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Normal' is a dryer setting.
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When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.
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A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes-those you can, in part, see. But it is more-it is the lichens and moss and ferns that grow on its bark, the life too small to see that lives among its roots, a community we know of, but do not think on. It is every fly and bee and beetle that uses it for shelter or food, every bird that nests in its branches. Every one an individual, and yet every one part of the tree, and the tree part of every one.
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Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue and green, or even a fleck or two of brown. Most people don't notice that. When I first went to get my state ID card, the form asked for eye color. I tried to write in all the colors in my own eyes, but the space wasnt big enough. They told me to put 'brown'. I put 'brown', but that is not the only color in my eyes. It is just the color that people see because they do not really look atr other people's eyes.
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When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.
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No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.
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Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could no longer slouch into the study in PJs and slippers. Someone would (avert!) straighten my desk. Someone would reorganize my yarn stash...in fact, they'd assign someone else to knit my socks, thus depriving me of an excuse to rest my brain while pretending to accomplish something useful.
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I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.
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To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our hands.
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Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.
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One thing nobody can do better than you is be you.
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One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.
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In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.
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I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.
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When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.
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I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.
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It is not wrong to be different. Sometimes it is hard, but it is not wrong.
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Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.
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