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 only place I can go where I'm not mobbed is my house.
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My brother loves this country deeply. He has laid down roots, and he has always been incredibly patriotic and committed to this country.
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Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years.
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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.
