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I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.
Julianna Baggott
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Julianna Baggott
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
Essayist
Novelist
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Wilmington
Delaware
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Sexist
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If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.
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While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.
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I believe that one of the most damning things about our culture is the adage to never talk religion and politics. Because we don't model this discourse at the dinner table and at Thanksgiving, we don't know how to do it well and we're not teaching our children about the world and about how to discuss it.
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I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.
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Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.
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I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.
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When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual
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