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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. Once we really get the full measure of it--we're slow learners, we women--we dry up in disgust and sensibly halt production.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Full
Babies
Turns
Disgusting
Young
Dry
Women
Production
Sensibly
Enough
Productions
Learners
Really
Slow
Disgust
Life
Measure
Grim
Baby
Halt

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