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There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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People think motherhood involves a lot of domestic labor, and it doesn't. It involves being nice to your children as often as possible. That's part of my trick. I don't have that anxiety about meeting their needs.
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Remember, if you sit at your desk for 15 or 20 years, every day, not counting weekends, it changes you. It just does. It may not improve your temper, but it fixes something else. It makes you more free.
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I think it’s very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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