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Biography

Author Profession: Writer

Nationality: American

Born: August 25, 1964

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Any, Good, Press

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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

Problem, Deny, Stories

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

Interesting, Batch, Control

For me, the interesting thing about anorexia is that you show your wound. There's no hiding it. So my anger and sense of disappointment, all the stuff I was out of touch with, became this visible rebuke to my parents. Marti Noxon

Became, Anorexia, About

There're been sort of a sea change in my work in general, in that the more personal, the universal it's become. Marti Noxon

Been, Work, More

You should live hoping you are going to offend people, because then you're doing something. Marti Noxon

Hoping, Doing, Going

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

Process, Big, Big Part

If there's a theme to where I'm at in my life, it's that 'warts and all' is actually my superpower. Just like you, I'm messed up and I'm capable. I'm this and that. Marti Noxon

My Life, Messed Up, Like

The status quo is never happy when things become a meritocracy. Marti Noxon

Never, Status Quo, Happy

Of all the mental illnesses, anorexia has the highest morbidity rate. It's serious. Marti Noxon

Anorexia, Illnesses, Highest

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, Raised, Shaving

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

Responsible, Own, Being

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

Always, Very, Everybody

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

Everybody, Doing, Experience

That went on for a long time: telling various tales from my experience being anorexic and bulimic, and having people say, 'You've got to write this; you are a writer,' and me not knowing how to approach the material. Marti Noxon

Telling, Anorexic, Got

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