To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.
From Amity Gaige
I think I have a very American desire and willingness to divulge everything. I would divulge more if I didn't know it wasn't smart.
I love writing letters. In order to write a novel in first person, I think I needed an addressee.
I do think, in general, children are so perceptive, and they watch and they get so much, and that's wonderful. And it's also difficult for them because they see so much, but they don't understand.
Other than a short article I read in 2008 when the real story broke, I have not followed the Clark Rockefeller case, and 'Schroder' is not a novelization of that story.
I researched children's rights, divorce law, and parental kidnapping. Millions of children and parents are touched by the inadequacy of the legal system to deal with the human heart.
Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others.
I wanted - and still want - to tell my mother's story. She fled Stalin's army in 1944, leaving Latvia, which was to be occupied by the Soviets for the next 50 years, and arrived to the U.S. when she was 11.
I think marriage and family keeps being written about because that's where we keep our reputations with ourselves - I mean, we can't quite slip the truths we reveal about ourselves at home.
'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' is, to my mind, a work of perfect genius.
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