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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
Kate Atkinson
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Kate Atkinson
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 20
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Feminism is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isnt it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldnt it?
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As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.
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Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person.
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