Julianna Baggott Quotes - Page 4

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• I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it.

  Julianna Baggott

  Writing, Want, Brutal

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection into a pitch for a novel and sell it to your publisher.

  Julianna Baggott

  New York, Book, Notable

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• If men are paid/praised more than women for the same work than it always pays to allow the man to have more freedom to pour himself into his work - think of athletes, actors over the age of 28, lawyers, accountants, college deans.

  Julianna Baggott

  Athlete, College, Men

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one in charge of the words.

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  Nyc, Actresses, Wanted

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.

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  Character, Mind, Important

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.

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  Reading, Writing, Practice

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• I've left the Church - for many reasons that I've written about publicly - but it's still a large part of my identity, and I still have my faith, if not my Church.

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  Church, Identity, Reason

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.

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  Imagination, Catholic, Raised

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• I believe we're brutes, but then, miraculously, there are those among us who stand up against that brutishness and remind us of the goodness we're capable of.

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  Believe, Goodness, Brutes

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• My childhood was marked by the great fear of nuclear holocaust. We practiced our Civil Defense Drills, lining up in hallways, curled to the floor, but we knew we'd die or, worse, survive only to suffer radiation and slow death.

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  Holocaust, Childhood, Suffering

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• The fact is there are many women who nod politely, even agree openly within their male-dominated often highly educated cultures, but vote their own minds.

  Julianna Baggott

  Mind, Males, Culture

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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