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Quotes from Golden Age — Jane Smiley

born 1949 United States

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She said, “Some are born bossy, some achieve bossiness, and some have bossiness thrust upon them.”

Golden Age (2015)

He had accepted that if you were a bookish person the events in your life took place in your head.

Golden Age (2015)

Two, she thought, was the most ephemeral age, the age of incipient consciousness, when personality was first chinking into place.

Golden Age (2015)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jane Smiley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.