I think that I always wanted to tell the stories of women w… - Alice Hoffman

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I think that I always wanted to tell the stories of women who were not able to tell their own stories.

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Alice Hoffman (born March 16, 1952) is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships.

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I think that I always wanted to tell the stories of women who were not able to tell their own stories. - Alice Hoffman

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