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I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

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I imagine witches to be people who sit around like my witty grandmother, people who are injustice collectors or humiliation collectors. I choose to imagine that's what a witch is. The reason witches are so evil is because they're so unhappy and so hurt.

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Story has a mind of its own and tells things sometimes it might have preferred us not to know. Stories operate like dreams; both veil what is to be uncovered, neither is capable of the coverup.

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My idea in Half the Kingdom was simply, or not so simply perhaps, that medical science has given us twenty extra years of life. Those twenty extra years - one is grateful for them, one is happy, but they also give you ten or twenty years more of losing your faculties. That is actually the origin of my notion. Once you live longer than you're supposed to live, things go dreadfully wrong. But nevertheless, you're not dead.

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Gustave Flaubert said, "Emma Bovary, c'est moi. " It is not possible to write something you are not, but to have a new form, with a different hair color and a new body. . . I do very little of that. That's why I keep bringing up the same people. I haven't given myself a hard time about it. But I can't make six new characters instead of one.

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Franz Kafka is a huge influence, more than the Grimms. To allow yourself to get into the coal bucket and fly to the sky. . . we learned that from Kafka, that you can have a thought and make a body of it in this way.

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I don't go to the movies because they scare me. I don't like anything that is suspenseful, even pleasantly so.

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