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I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it.

Julianna Baggott

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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Wilmington
Delaware
Really
However
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Wildly
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Boldly
Truth
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Women
Brutal
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Deeply
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Moved

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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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I prefer a cluttered workspace.
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I prefer true over happy now.
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It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They've made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.
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My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.
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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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Memories are like water.
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Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.
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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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No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.
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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'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 have faith in human beings. I struggle with that faith.
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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've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.
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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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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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I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.
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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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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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