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- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Marilynne Robinson was born on November 26, 1943 in Sandpoint, Idaho, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Home, Housekeeping (1987) and How to Save Democracy (2025).
- Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for "Gilead".
- Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, volume 140, pages 322-325. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
- Graduated from Pembroke College in Brown University in 1966.
- [on the DACA people] They have been roasting over a slow fire for months, for no reason. Deadlines changing, threats floating, all this sort of thing. If there's one thing the Bible insists on, it is that you are kind to strangers, that you are generous to strangers. They're not even strangers - they're us, with a little technical difficulty. How anyone who claims to know anything about the Bible could endure this spectacle, I cannot begin to imagine.
- [observation, 2018] It is shocking how defenseless the protections of the environment, of the poor and even of the rights of voters have been shown to be in recent years. No one defends these things as America, because the Left no more than the right thinks of them as core values.
- Truth had sharp edges and hard corners, and could be seriously at odds with kindness.
- The Sabbath is faithful. In a week she'll be here again.
- Meaninglessness would come as a terrible blow to most people. It would be full of significance for them. So it wouldn't be meaningless.
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