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Lionel Shriver

American Journalist

Born: May 18, 1957

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Related authors: Ambrose Bierce Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Hunter S. Thompson Mignon McLaughlin Walter Cronkite William F. Buckley, Jr. William Lloyd Garrison

However unattractive, pre-nups are at least a way round a law that dictates simply because you love someone and share their bed, that person has a claim on everything you own. Lionel Shriver

Love You Law Own Everything Way Claim Unattractive Someone Share Simply Because Bed Least However Dictates Person Round

A pre-nup is an insurance policy or, in brokerage terms, a short hedge - meant to mitigate a high-risk investment. It safeguards the love-struck from their own poor judgment of character. Lionel Shriver

Character Judgment Own Brokerage High-Risk Investment Terms Safeguards Policy Insurance Mitigate Short Hedge Poor Meant

In the era of Venus Williams, girliness and goo isn't the way to every woman's heart. Yet publishers presume that women only buy a book that looks soft and that appears to be all about women, even if it isn't. Yet women, unlike men, buy books by and about both sexes. Lionel Shriver

I have buckets of sympathy for the obese, often subject to cruelty, ridicule, denunciation, and contempt. Lionel Shriver

Cruelty Sympathy Obese Buckets Contempt Subject Often Ridicule

Ever since Hiroshima, we've been faced with the depressing fact that you cannot un-invent something. Lionel Shriver

You Faced Something Fact Since Hiroshima Been Cannot Depressing Ever

Reality doesn't have to be plausible. Reality can be as preposterous as it pleases. Lionel Shriver

Reality Pleases Plausible

The absence of doll babies in my toy chest didn't seriously influence my later decision not to become a mother; rather, I disdained Hasbro's Baby Alive wetting doll because I was already the kind of girl who would grow up to be childless by choice. Lionel Shriver

Mother Decision Seriously Girl Become Babies Baby Later Alive Kind Would Rather Absence Toy Because Doll Chest Up Childless Influence Choice Who Grow Grow Up

In my country, we're sufficiently consumed by the concept of happiness that the right to its pursuit is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. But what is happiness? Lionel Shriver

Happiness Independence Country Enshrined Pursuit Consumed Concept Declaration Right Sufficiently

In the big picture, few of our careers live up to the dreams we nursed when we were young. In fact, one underside of success is that it's nearly always penultimate, and so every accomplishment merely raises the bar. Lionel Shriver

Success Dreams Picture Big Few Young Live Every Nursed Our Fact Merely Always Were Accomplishment Up Big Picture In Fact Bar Success Is Nearly Raises Careers

Writers who take on polarising issues are apt to step on a few toes. Lionel Shriver

Few Apt Take Writers Step Issues Toes Who

At the keyboard, unrelenting anguish about hurting other people's feelings inhibits spontaneity and constipates creativity. Lionel Shriver

Creativity People Feelings Other Keyboard Hurting About Anguish Unrelenting Spontaneity

A Trump presidency feels as if we've crawled between the covers of a really crummy book. Lionel Shriver

Book Presidency Crummy Between Feels Covers Trump Really

I'm not a religious person. Chances are that the universe neither treasures nor regrets us. Lionel Shriver

Universe Neither Religious Religious Person Nor Person Regrets Us Treasures Chances

When Truman Capote wrote from the perspective of condemned murderers from a lower economic class than his own, he had some gall. But writing fiction takes gall. Lionel Shriver

Class Writing Perspective Own Some Economic Had He Takes Wrote Condemned His Truman Truman Capote Than Fiction Gall Lower Capote

There was a point in the latter 1990s at which, suddenly, every sitcom and drama in sight had to have a gay or lesbian character or couple. That was good news as a voucher of the success of the gay rights movement, but it still grew a bit tiresome: 'Look at us! Our show is so hip, one of the characters is homosexual!' Lionel Shriver

Success Good News Character Gay Rights Good News Lesbian Every Drama Gay Rights Our Bit Sight Latter Characters Rights Movement Point Had Look Couple Hip Still Sitcom Movement Grew Tiresome Which Us Show Suddenly Homosexual

Trump is not charismatic. He is artless and politically clumsy and wears his egotism on his sleeve. Lionel Shriver

Sleeve Charismatic Wears He His Trump Egotism Politically Clumsy

Hypersensitivity has become a weapon. Lionel Shriver

Become Weapon

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