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To know I was beautiful in his eyes made me beautiful.

Janet Fitch

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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
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LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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Made
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...The men eyed her with the automatic mix of curiosity, lust, and aesthetic judgment they always gave young women, subject to object, the way you'd stare at an animal. She pretended not to notice. To remind them she was a person was too much effort. Objects bore no guilt.
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her scruffy innoscense to impregnate with his dreams. reason was seductive, it gave the appearance of truth
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The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.
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Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.
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like a kid kicked out of class. humiliated and free.
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Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.
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I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses and scratched the paint on new cars and beat up well-tended children. It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.
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I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.
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The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.
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She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.
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Who are you? the band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say.
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Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.
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When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration. I never know how my stories will end.
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One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.
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The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.
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I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing.
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What can she possibly teach you, twenty seven names for tears?
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In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show.
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It's all I ever really wanted, that revelation. The possibility of fixed stars.
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Pick a better verb. Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an A-bomb.
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