"I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad."
-Mary Gordon
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"It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.“
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"We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does."
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"How sweet it is!"
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