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I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.

Julianna Baggott

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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Wilmington
Delaware
Sexist
Woman

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I believe we're brutes, but then, miraculously, there are those among us who stand up against that brutishness and remind us of the goodness we're capable of.
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My childhood was marked by the great fear of nuclear holocaust. We practiced our Civil Defense Drills, lining up in hallways, curled to the floor, but we knew we'd die or, worse, survive only to suffer radiation and slow death.
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Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.
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I prefer a cluttered workspace.
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I'm about to start something new. I'm waiting to be whelmed. The whelming as you start something new is quite something.
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Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.
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The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.
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Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.
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Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.
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So far, I should be calm and more specifically not like that...Anything else? Would you like to do surgery on my personality? How about open-heart surgery? I´ve got some tools
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I prefer true over happy now.
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Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?
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Memories are like water.
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Being cross-genre, you can encounter an image and decide not only how to best express it but what form would express it best.
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I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.
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I have faith in human beings. I struggle with that faith.
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Are there books about us or something?” This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study, a story, instead of filled with real people, trying to survive.
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I try not to divide plot and character. I get to know a character by what they want and fear and how those internal forces play out in their lives.
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I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.
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I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal.
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