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Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.
Janet Fitch
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Janet Fitch
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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I imagined my soul taking in these words like silicated water in the Petrified Forest, turning my wood to patterned agate. I liked it when my mother shaped me this way. I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.
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I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.
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I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.
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One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.
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We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.
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Her hatred glittered irresistibly. I could see it, the jewel, it was sapphire, it was the cold lakes of Norway.
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without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my past was my life.
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They say drugs are not the answer, but really, what is the question?
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We have no home, she told me. I am your home.
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Who was I, really? I was the sole occupant of my mother's totalitarian state, my own personal history rewritten to fit the story she was telling that day. There were so many missing pieces. I was starting to find some of them, working my way upriver, collecting a secret cache of broken memories in a shoebox.
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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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Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.
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A dependent clause (a sentence fragment set off by commas, dontcha know) helps you explore your story by moving you deeper into the sentence. It allows you to stop and think harder about what you've already written. Often the story you're looking for is inside the sentence. The dependent clause helps you uncover it.
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A cliche is everything you've ever heard of.
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Once you get below the floor of our personal identities, we're all connected. Perhaps that's why we can move into others' lives.
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Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.
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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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