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Motherhood has no firm curriculum, but it can make you mechanically minded, and it can connect you firmly to physical life.

— Hortense Calisher Interview with The Paris Review (1987)

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A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.

At their best they’re our moral health—and our hope.

Interview with The Paris Review (1987)

I grew up, you know, in a generation of war novels and macho—Hemingway’s being the most prominent.

Interview with The Paris Review (1987)

I am more interested in wars of the mind.

Interview with The Paris Review (1987)

As for complication—or complexity—it excites me.

Interview with The Paris Review (1987)

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