I admire Joyce Maynard a lot, specifically her memoir "At Home in the World. " Her writing is … - Marie Calloway

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Marie Calloway

I admire Joyce Maynard a lot, specifically her memoir "At Home in the World. " Her writing is beautiful and fascinating and seemed to give me validation to the idea that I could write validly in earnest about my life with (my) very feminine point of view, and also that I could unapologetically explore the bad traits of my character (which I find to be more interesting to explore than the good traits), as well as explore other concepts that interest me like private vs public personas, age gap relationships, etc.

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I started to wonder, and felt relieved that there might be truth to the idea of intellectuals all being frauds. I knew that I certainly was.

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I will be a commodity, and I will be in demand and valuable.

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Besides the money aspect, I guess I was curious about sex work. In the way that most people are, but also because ever since I was a teen I had read feminist writers like Dworkin and Mackinnon and the way they wrote about sex work had an enormous impact on me. Was it really as horrible as they said?

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One thing about having mostly absent parents that I think was perhaps "good" for the development of my intellect
writing is that I was given almost total freedom to read
write
look at whatever I wanted. I wonder a lot about how my past experiences, particularly my negative childhood (home life and being severely bullied
ostracized throughout school) as formed my
my thoughts
my writing, though I should also note those things were far from the only thing that had an impact on me
my writing.