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People tend to think I'm always aggressive and strong. The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing, which leads me into terrible, self paralysing depressions. When I go down to this place, I feel so empty and overwhelmed I can barely move. But perversely, I find these traits in a man unacceptable — I can't stand someone who can out-depress me. You know that scene in Babe where the farmer clog-dances for the pig? Sometimes I'm the sick pig and I need a farmer to cheer me up. And when things get bad, my boyfriend does dance for me, and it never fails to make me laugh. He's a pretty snappy dancer.

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Quote Author: Maureen Dowd

Maureen Dowd

Maureen Dowd

Maureen Dowd (born January 14, 1952) is a Washington D.C.-based columnist for The New York Times . She has worked for the Times since 1983, when she joined as a metropolitan reporter. In 1999, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her series of columns on the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Dowd was born in Washington, D.C., the youngest of five children, where her father (who was born in County Clare in Ireland) worked as a Washington D.C. police inspector.

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