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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
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University Teacher
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Wilmington
Delaware
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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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Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.
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I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.
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I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.
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The lessons learned in journalism also apply. Writing for NPR has taught me to cut a piece in half and then in half again - without losing the essence. Apply that to the swollen prose of a bulky novel and you might reveal a beautiful work.
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I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.
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I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?
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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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The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression.
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She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.
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I have faith in human beings. I struggle with that faith.
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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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