Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

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How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.

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It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

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My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

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I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.

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When I was pregnant, I felt filled with life, and I felt really happy. I ate well, and I slept well. I felt much more useful than I'd ever felt before.

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In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.

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My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.

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To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

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So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.

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