There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets. - Joyce Maynard

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The single greatest world transformation would simply be the embrace of global reasonableness and pluralistic tolerance the global embrace of egoic-rationality (on the way to centauric vision-logic).

Joyce Maynard

There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.

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I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.

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Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.

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I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.

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