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Jean Margaret Laurence, CC (née Wemyss) (18 July 1926 – 5 January 1987) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, and is one of the major figures in Canadian literature. She was also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community.

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When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

Mean Girls, Jobs, Writing, Say, Everything, Mean

Why doesn't Prin go and get her own goddamn blistering bloody shitty jelly doughnuts?

Bloody, Doughnut, Doughnuts, Jelly

It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of course, mean this in any political-party sense, but rather in a willingness to struggle for those things in which we passionately believe. Social activism and the struggle for social justice are often thought of as the natural activities of the young but not of the middle-aged or the elderly. In fact, I don't think this was ever true.

Party, Believe, Struggle, Feeling, Mean, Sense

What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.

Goes On, Same

Well, you're young. You know a lot you won't know later on.

Know, Knows, Wells, Young

As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.

Earth Day, Environmental, Should, Older, Become, Grow

Follow your heart, and you perish.

Friendship, Heart, Follow Your Heart, Perish, Follow

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.

Education, Enticing, Holiday, Longer, Rise, Vacation

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

Funny, Family, Sarcastic, Families, Described, Sorry

If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.

Children, My Children, Worse, Written

I've never been able to force a novel. I always had the sense something being given to me. You can't sit around and wait until inspiration strikes, but neither can you force into being something that isn't there.

Able, Inspiration, Novel, Sit, Waiting

Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young.

Aged, Granted, Privacy, Privilege

Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words.

Animal, Roaring, Animals, Words, Alone

I am rampant with memory.

Memories, Rampant, Memory

Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg.

Lord, Bless, Please