Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.
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If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.
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Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.
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My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?
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If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.
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Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.
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The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.
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To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.
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Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.
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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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