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I gave people the benefit of the doubt, thinking, so many people that appear very calm and even boring must have all these wild emotions and crazy ideas.

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Curtis Sittenfeld
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 23
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Cincinnati
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I've had people say very dismissive things about my books, but I also feel like I probably have more readers because I'm a woman. I mean, more readers are women and more people who buy books are women, so I don't feel like it's a total disadvantage to be a female writer.
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I heard Gillian say, with a laugh, At this point, does anyone expect the liberals not to be total hypocrites? She was oblivious to the possibility that perhaps not everyone present shared her views, and I thought, You're sixteen. How can you already be a Republican?
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To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.
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I think that there's some confusion in my own mind about what I believe.
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