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It’s that idea of disguise that I find myself coming back to. You can really, in a sense, be anybody or anybodies, plural, in writing.

— Joanna Russ Journal of Popular Romance Studies (2011)

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“Rational people,” said the man, “realize that their lives must be made meaningful. Meaning isn’t just given us.”

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How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.

The Female Man (1975)

Sit a man on his ass with nothing to do but eat and the first thing that goes is his mind. It never fails.

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Fucking, if you will forgive the pun, is an anti-climax.

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There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

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Strength of creative writing lies in the skill of handling words and articulating artistic expression of feelings.”

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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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