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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Whoever has not experienced the pleasure of taking a young lady to her first game of ball should seize the first opportunity to do so. Her remarks about plays, her opinions of different players and the umpire, and the questions she will ask concerning the game, are all too funny to be missed.
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At Getty, I would have 20 different options for the same kind of event rather than focusing on the one image that will summarize the story.
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In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in heaven and earth and makes a god of its own infallibility.
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I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States.
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I'm one of the ones who believed the Iraq War was a complete mistake from the very beginning.
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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.