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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: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
Author
Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
Screwed
Women
Firsts
Everything
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Always
Men
Oleanders

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I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.
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If sinners where so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I?
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A person didn’t need to be beautiful, they just needed to be loved. But I couldn’t help wanting it. If that was the way I could be loved, to be beautiful, I’d take it
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We recived our colouring from the Norsemen,hairy savages who hacked their gods to pieces and hung the flesh from trees.We are the ones who sacked Rome.Fear only feeble old age and death in bed.Don't forget who you are.
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That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the bitter so bitter you gave up the sweet.
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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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I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.
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history only existed in the human mind, subject to endless revision. 'each man kills the thing he loves'-Oscar Wilde. You kill it before it kills you, but he was wrong. you killed it by accident. thinking you were doing something else. shattering, when all you wanted to do was keep it safe.
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The nearest I'd come to feeling anything like God was the plan blue cloudless sky and a certain silence, but how do you pray to that?
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It's all I ever really wanted, that revelation. The possibility of fixed stars.
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A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.
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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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She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.
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