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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
Great
Pleasing
Needs
Sympathetic
People
Thoughts
Dark
Often
Also
Women
Need
Portray

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