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Why Are We So Attached To The Severities Of The Past? Why Are We So Proud Of Having Endured Our Fathers And Our Mothers, The Fireless Days And The Meatless Days, The Cold Winters And The Sharp Tongues? It's Not As If We Had A Choice.

You Think You're Writing One Historical Novel And It Turns Into Three, And I'm Quite Used To A Short Story Turning Into A Novel - That's Happened Through My Whole Career.

There's A Feeling Of Power In Reserve, A Power That Drives Right Through The Bone, Like The Shiver You Sense In The Shaft Of An Axe When You Take It Into Your Hand. You Can Strike, Or You Can Not Strike, And If You Choose To Hold Back The Blow, You Can Still Feel Inside You The Resonance Of The Omitted Thing.

It Is Better Not To Try People, Not To Force Them To Desperation. Make Them Prosper; Out Of Superfluidity, They Will Be Generous. Full Bellies Breed Gentle Manners. The Pinch Of Famine Makes Monsters.

It's Not Easy To Diagnose Because Depending Where The Endometrial Deposits Are, The Symptoms Can Be Quite Different. It's An Unrecognized Problem Among Teenage Girls, And It's Something That Every Young Woman Who Has Painful Menstruation Should Be Aware Of... It's A Condition That Is Curable If It's Caught Early. If Not, If It's Allowed To Run On, It Can Cause Infertility, And It Can Really, Really Mess Up Your Life.