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She was okay. There was nothing wrong with her that a vasectomy of the vocal cords would not fix.Lisa Alther
I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.
Lisa Alther
Dying was apparently a weaning process all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.
Lisa Alther
Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.
Lisa Alther
I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.
Lisa Alther
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Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space.
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Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.
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