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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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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
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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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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.
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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
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