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It's been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges.

Danielle Steel

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Danielle Steel
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: August 14
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schülein-Steel
Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel
Challenges
Come
Adult
Hard
Mostly
Life
Develop
Mom
Anymore
Adults
Married

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My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.
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What intrigues me is the difference in how women experience power, and how men do.
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The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.
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.. that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.
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Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works
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Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent and you feel those people filling your lives.
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I'm astonished by my success.
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.. All you know is your parents telling you that you're not deserving, you're not worthy, and no one will ever want you. Believe me, tapes like that play so loud, you can't hear anything else. Even when it's clear otherwise.
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There's no style, nobody dresses up-you can't be chic [in San Francisco]
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The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.
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I once looked like Norman Mailer in a picture with bad lighting.
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Feelings aren't sensible. Sometimes you fall in love with people who don't make sense. And the ones who do make sense turn out to be the wrong ones.
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I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.
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I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I'm one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun - my children are horrified!
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...there were no guarantees in life, only promises and whispers.
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If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance
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I'm one of them. The weirdos and the freaks. My point was that it's ok to be different, and from now on we'd better be, if we're going to make something of ourselves. It's the one thing I learned in school. Different is ok. -Victoria
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