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I will write myself into well-being.
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Diaries
Well Being
Writing
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our lives are stories we tell ourselves.
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Life
Our Lives
Stories
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A line, once crossed, can never be uncrossed.
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You don't have to want death in order to prepare for it.
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Death
Order
Want
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Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice.
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Practice
Riding
Writing
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In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.
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Female
Grammar
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That's the trouble with honorable mentions: they let everyone know you applied and didn't win.
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Irony
Trouble
Winning
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If only we could have them back as babies today, now that we have some idea what to do with them.
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Baby
Children
Ideas
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Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.
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Atlas
Fiction
Two
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God enters the world through those of us who are willing to let God participate fully in our lives.
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Angel
Letting Go
World
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Who one believes God to be is most accurately revealed not in any credo but in the way one speaks to God when no one else is listening.
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Believe
Listening
Prayer
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Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.
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Looks
People
Poverty
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One of the blessings that comes with parental territory is that children tug you into experiences you're pretty sure you'd never otherwise contemplate.
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Blessing
Children
Territory
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My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved well enough.
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Erotic
Want
Writing
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The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live long enough, as you're increasingly likely to do, you may well join it.
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Long
Minorities
Warning
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physical disability looms pretty large in one's life. But it doesn't devour one wholly. I'm not, for instance, Ms. MS, a walking, talking embodiment of a chronic incurable degenerative disease.
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Disease
Embodiment
Talking
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If the very thought of taking off all your clothes in the middle of the Washington Mall during a school holiday makes you blush, you haven't even begun to dream what it feels like to publish a book.
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Dream
Book
School
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From the moment of birth, at every level, human beings who are more alike than different become polarized into two absolutely exclusive classes with very different and ill-distributed symbolic powers.
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Class
Different
Two
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This kind of split makes me crazy, this territorializing of the holy. Here God may dwell. Here God may not dwell. It contradicts everything in my experience, which says: God dwells where I dwell. Period.
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God
Crazy
Splits
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God is no White Knight who charges into the world to pluck us like distressed damsels from the jaws of dragons, or diseases. God chooses to become present to and through us. It is up to us to rescue one another.
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God
Dragons
Knights
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Weddings in our society seem designed to reduce the bride and groom to precisely the condition of those who, because they 'lack sufficient use of reason,' are 'incapable of contracting marriage,' according to canon law.
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Law
Our Society
Use
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people who seem most hostile to my presence are those most fearful of my fate. And since their fear keeps them emotionally distant from me, they are the ones least likely to learn that my life isn't half so dismal as they assume.
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Fate
Half
People
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In a society that prates about, but seldom practices, communication, the craving to be listened to, heard, understood - which originates with the first terrified wail, the circling arms, the breast, the consolatory murmur - is hard to assuage.
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Communication
Listening
Practice
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To view your life as blessed does not require you to deny your pain. It simply demands a more complicated vision, one in which a condition or event is not either good or bad but is, rather, both good and bad, not sequentially, but simultaneously.
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Blessed
Pain
Views
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Do others, I wondered, "see things as I do? I do not think so, for if they did they would not still be alive." And, life-threatening though my vision seemed, I would not repudiate it: "Sometimes I think I shall die from being different even as I cling to the difference fiercely."
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Being Different
Differences
Thinking
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no one expects all impediments to be miraculously whisked away. In insisting that others view our lives as ample and precious, we are not demanding that they be made perfect. ... If it is both possible and pleasant for me and my kind to enter, the world will become a livelier place. You'll see.
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Perfect
Views
World
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Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts in one night through the cat door, the telephone call out of a friend's silence of years, the sudden greeting from the girl-child---we constantly make of ourselves our selves.
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Girl
Cat
Children
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I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself - constitutes the most daunting barrier for most people with physical impairments, because it, even more than flights of steps or elevators without braille, prevents them from participating fully in the ordinary world, where most of life's satisfactions dwell.
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Ordinary World
People
Self
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The charity that begins at home cannot rest there but draws one inexorably over the threshold and off the porch and down the street and so out and out and out and out into the world which becomes the home wherein charity begins until it becomes possible, in theory at least, to love the whole of creation with the same patience, affection, and amusement one first practiced, in between the pouts and tantrums, with parents, siblings, spouse, and children.
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Home
Children
Sibling
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Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction: a kind of forced labor culminating in the production of another soul for God. What kind of a God stands like Lee Iacocca at the end of an assembly line, driving his workers with a greedy 'More! More!' while the automobiles pile up in showrooms and on freeways and in used-car lots and finally junkyards, his only satisfaction the gross production figures at the end of every quarter?
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Car
Children
Soul
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