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Author Profession: Writer

Nationality: American

Born: August 25, 1964

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The problem with generalizations and judgments, the words we hurl as insults, is that they deny our humanity and our stories. Marti Noxon

Words, Problem, Humanity, Insults, Our

It's interesting because the first batch of really struggling with control and escape and all that happened when I was nearing adolescence, and the second one came with the onset of early menopause. Marti Noxon

Control, Interesting, Early, Escape

It all starts with a very solid, well-executed script, where the story is very clear and everybody is rowing in the same direction. That's always good; that's a constant. Marti Noxon

Good, Direction, Story, Rowing, Always

When you're allowed to tell stories with ambiguity and darkness and things that are still unresolved, that's the dream scenario as opposed to having to fit into a more procedural mode or something a little more conventional. That's not what's working on TV right now. Marti Noxon

Darkness, Dream, You, Now, Right, Tell

That's a big part of the process: making the right choice from the beginning. Not getting distracted by shiny things. Marti Noxon

Beginning, Process, Choice, Big, Right

Around 10, I got chubby. I knew I'd crossed a line when the only pants that fit were from the 'Junior Plenty' line at JC Penny. My parents had split up, my mom was going through a dark time, and my brother and I were getting bullied in our new neighborhood. Life was big and unsafe. Marti Noxon

Life, Time, Parents, Mom, Brother, Dark

I was raised by a lesbian feminist who told me that shaving my legs was giving into the patriarchy. So, I consider myself to be a bona fide feminist. Marti Noxon

Myself, Giving, Me, Legs, Patriarchy

Not proud. But I watched 'The Bachelor' only once, and I really felt, after that experience, that I could never do it again. I felt it was so morally compromising, as a woman. Marti Noxon

Experience, Woman, Proud, Never, Only

It's humiliating, being told you're not responsible enough to make your own choices in life. Marti Noxon

Life, Choices, You, Enough, Own, Your

I really understand that we have to be sensitive to people's feelings and to their sensitivities, but you also can't be muzzled to tell a story. Marti Noxon

People, Story, You, Feelings, Understand

'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger' not only applies to the deeply personal subject matter of 'To the Bone' but to simply getting a film about people with eating disorders made. Without the brilliant Julie Lynn, Bonnie Curtis, and Karina Miller producing, there's no way this project would be coming to fruition. Marti Noxon

People, Stronger, Eating, You, Personal

Too many people will die needlessly if we go back to letting people buy junk insurance or insurance that doesn't help people with diseases related to mental illness. Marti Noxon

People, Help, Die, Insurance, Back, Will

One of the good things about consulting is that you leave the writers' room for a couple of days, things progress, you come back, and you might have a fresher take. Marti Noxon

Progress, Good, Good Things, You, Back

I can't be interesting, controversial, and the writer I'd like to be if I need everybody to like me and think I'm doing the right thing, because those two things, in my experience, never go hand in hand. Marti Noxon

Experience, Doing The Right Thing, Think

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