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Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.

Julianna Baggott

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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Wilmington
Delaware
Collectives
Collective
Pull
Constantly
Reach
Power
Women
Underestimated

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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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No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.
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I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.
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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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People know the difference between good and evil in their hearts-if they search them. Religions twist good and evil. Their differences are the kind that need to be taught because they aren't natural.
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My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one in charge of the words.
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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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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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Memories are like water.
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The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.
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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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Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.
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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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Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.
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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 feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?
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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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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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