I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.

As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.

I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

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