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Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.

Julianna Baggott

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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Wilmington
Delaware
Writing
Feminism
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Empathy
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Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.
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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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Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.
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A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.
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You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.
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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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Sometimes when reading aloud to my husband, I'll start crying. It completely stuns me. As if the words in my body and on the page - in relation to each other - are cocooned against my own feelings about what I'm writing until they're loosed in the air and become their own. Then I realize what I may or may not have done.
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No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.
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But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.
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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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I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.
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Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and squawk of my fellow man. They can be quite inspiring. Sometimes it's hard to stop talking to them to see what in the world they're thinking.
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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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The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.
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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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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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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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Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.
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I prefer true over happy now.
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Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.
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