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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
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Wilmington
Delaware
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One of the reasons I write in different genres is that I get to have the feeling - even fleetingly - that I'm not just writing like Baggott again. I can escape myself.
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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've left the Church - for many reasons that I've written about publicly - but it's still a large part of my identity, and I still have my faith, if not my Church.
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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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The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.
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Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.
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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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Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.
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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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Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.
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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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You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.
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Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.
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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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I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.
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I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?
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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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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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When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection into a pitch for a novel and sell it to your publisher.
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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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