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The creation is a very internal process, and publishing the book is a very external process. It is nice to see the book out in the world and people having the same reaction as when I created it. The point of all art is the emotional transference, and when that happens, the book has succeeded. ”
I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality. ”
No one in the government is seriously penalized when Social Security numbers are stolen and misused; only the number-holders suffer. ”
When you lose your Visa card, you get a new card with a new number, and any new charges with the old number are blocked. Why can't we do the same with Social Security numbers? ”
Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism. ”
Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great contributions to civilization. ”
Whatever you define family as, family is just a part of belonging to something that takes care of you and nurtures you... and when you have lost that, and you want to get that back, it's pretty easy to get emotional about it. ”
I've always been such a loser with my organisation skills. That has always been one of my sad stand-out points. ”
We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot. ”
Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along. ”