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A Friend Of Mine Urged Me To See My Pain As An Opportunity. And Since The Same Psychic That Contacted Dion Fortune Had Told Me That I Was A "teacher" - She Didn't Mean At Columbia, She Meant In The Spiritual Sense - I Decided My Affliction Was The Universe Telling Me That It Was Time To Stop Writing Fiction And Become The Spiritual Guru I Was Clearly Meant To Be.

I Think The One Reason That Writers Marry Other Writers - One Of The Reasons That I Married Another Writer - Was, I Fell In Love With That Writer. But Second Of All, I Had Been Married Before And A Source Of Marital Strife Was Me Needing To Go Away For A Couple Of Weeks To Write Or It's Saturday And I Think I Just Need To Work Today And Not Hang Out With You.

I Think Female-female Relationships Interest Me So Much More Because They're So Encoded. There Is Kind Of A Psychic Element That Happens Within Groups Of Women. Whenever I Hang Out With My Female Friends, I Feel Like Context Is Never Needed.

Sometimes It Can Be Useful To Read Your Bad Reviews.

I Have A Daughter Who, When Younger, Possessed No Barrier Between Her Emotional Self And The Outside World. Her Emotional Insides Spilled Out All Over, And, Especially When I Was Sleep-deprived And Probably A Little Paranoid, This Really Threatened Me. It Was As If She Were Embodying And Expressing The Insecurities And Freaked-outedness I Never Express, And Which I've Learned Over The Years To Keep Hidden.