

“I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine.”
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“I learned that you can't truly own anything, that true ownership comes only in the moment of giving.”
― What Falls Away: A Memoir
― What Falls Away: A Memoir

“Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.”
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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