- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Everybody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from a home where everybody had a book.
- Harriet
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
With my husband, I have twice sailed across the Atlantic in a sailboat one third the length of the Mayflower. I know Atlantic gales inside and out. I endured one that lasted for three days with winds up to fifty knots.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether you are a twelve-year-old princess or a twelve-year-old regular kid, you need to know you are loved and respected.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never in a million years would I want to live at Versailles with Marie Antoinette or anybody else. I hate to tell you this but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a great advocate of women's rights, a member of the League of Women's Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a woman's rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause in the state of Indiana.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can read a newspaper article, and it might trigger something else in my mind. I often like to choose in historical fiction things or subject matter I don't feel have been given a fair shake in history.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wondered what it was like to be just a normal kid growing up in trying times or during a great moment in history.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our community here in Boston, we have had a tremendous influx of Russian Jews and Haitians. We call these people immigrants. But they come for the same reasons that William Bradford and William Brewster and John Carver came.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not a happy lot being a princess in any country, but especially Japan in which every tiny aspect of one's life is governed by the most rigid rules of protocol.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of the Japanese royal family, they were considered the direct descendants of a god. They are regarded as all-powerful and possessors of unimaginable wealth, and yet they are, more often than not, literally prisoners of tradition.
- Hesitant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was actually very hesitant to write about Marie Antoinette. She seemed at first glance - well, I cannot think of any other term - an airhead of the first degree.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I treat all my characters as if they were real, and I am scrupulous about the details of their lives.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate to tell you this, but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream. It gave me the mental equivalent of one of those toothaches you get when you bite into something too sweet.
- Attempting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with a female character. They all had the same challenges in terms of attempting to establish an identity, coping with loneliness, friendships, relationships.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Sacajawea was caught in a series of tragic situations - her kidnapping as a child, her being passed from tribe to tribe, being sold into marriage. However, I never thought of her as a tragic figure. I do not think she was a victim in the way we think of tragic figures.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Manic depressive people often have incredible energy and a slightly skewed, but nonetheless valid, way of looking at things.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020