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Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of leaving something when I'm not quite happy with it.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

I've discovered I am quite a puritanical person.

I was raised not so much in a puritan environment, but for the most part, a pretty healthy one.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical.

No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.

Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.