Meg Wolitzer Quotes
I think everyone is always measuring themselves against other people to a certain degree; it happens automatically, and it's hard not to be this way at least some of the time.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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I have known I was destined to live in Goa the moment I first stepped foot on the Panjim docks from the ferry from Mumbai, when I was 18.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
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I'm actually not on Twitter.
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When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
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I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.
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For as long as I can remember, we've been having debates about the foreign policy disasters and seemingly unsolvable problems around the world. Dinner conversations are replayed over generations - nothing seems to get better, and in some aspects, it seems dramatically worse, and that is especially true for women.
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I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
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It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.
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I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up.
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The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.
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I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.
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Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.
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To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.
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My pops and my mom started playing Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers and all these people, but at the same time, they always had Snoop on right behind it in the same mix.
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I think everyone is always measuring themselves against other people to a certain degree; it happens automatically, and it's hard not to be this way at least some of the time.
