- Mama
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose the desire to go to town helped make me ambitious, and the allure of the worlds that came in over the radio also helped. But the rewards of growing up on a farm were far greater in many ways than life in town.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing.
- Farm
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived on the farm with my parents and grandparents. I had no playmates as a young child, and I was indulged. I helped my grandmother piece quilts, and we made pretty albums, an old-fashioned pastime. We cut poems and pictures out of magazines.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rejected the traditional notion of 'women's work,' but I never thought of my early ambitions in a feminist way, exactly. Primarily I rebelled against apathy and limited education. I was rejecting a whole way of life that I thought trapped everyone.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often say flippantly that the short story is... shorter; you can be done with it more easily. It's much less of a commitment of time and energy than a big project like a novel or long nonfiction book.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing about where I was from and the people I knew was not something that would have occurred to me early on, because like so many Southerners of that period - the Sixties - I rejected those things when I went north.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020