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I don't know, I'm not from this neighborhood. "-to Jake LaMotta after a night of drinking when LaMotta asked "is that the sun or the moon?

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Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.

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The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.

Fixed, Good, Mother, Reality, Wine

As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.

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As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.

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That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up.

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I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.

Jobs, People, University
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