"I didn't set out to write a book with no real male characters, but men were not important to my narrator, who was much more interested in maternal and pseudo-maternal love, so they were unimportant to me. I didn't even notice the lack of men in the story until I finished it. But once I did notice it, I was kind of delighted. Apparently, my subconscious is totally sexist."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Janice Erlbaum

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“Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. Thatâ€™s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I canâ€™t really explain why.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.305, Simon and Schuster
“As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.”
“There are so many ways to be and to be black at the same time, but we're finally seeing that full range expressed much more widely than before.”
“Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.”
“I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.”
“I learned to ski at a young age and love it - but I don't get to do it as much as I'd like because of the risk of injuries.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Never say never. I myself say no to things, and then I wear them. So, I'm now kind of sticking to the rule that there are no rules. Everything eventually comes back.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try.”

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