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The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.

Ariel Gore

It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill: whiskey and cigarettes, unprotected sex, and deep-fried burritos.

Ariel Gore

Maybe it goes without saying that if you want to become a famous writer before you're dead, you'll have to write something. But the folks in my classes with the biggest ideas and the best publicity shots ready to grace the back covers of their best-selling novels are also usually the ones who aren't holding any paper.

Ariel Gore

With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries—seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.

Ariel Gore

When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the work itself feels in sync with our pulse, when we know that what we're doing matters, we can get totally absorbed in our task. That is happiness.

Ariel Gore

Ariel Gore

Ariel Gore

Born: June 25, 1970 (age 55)

Bio: Ariel Gore is a journalist, memoirist, novelist, nonfiction author, and teacher. She is the founding editor/publisher of Hip Mama, an Alternative Press Award-winning publication covering the culture and politics of motherhood.

Known for:

The End of Eve: A Memoir (2014)
Atlas of the human heart (2003)
The Hip mama survival guide (1998)
Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City
The People's Apocalypse
The Essential Hip Mama

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