All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty.
("Memoirs of a Geisha")
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When men go out, the women stay at home. And historically what has always happened is the Japanese men hire women to sit and kind of entertain them.
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Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.
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