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Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.
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When you really want to say no, say no. You can't do everything - or at least not well.
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Control is a nice concept, little more.
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Reading has as many functions as the human body, and ... not all of them are cerebral.
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Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.
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Sometimes things have to come when you're ready for them.
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A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.
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I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better place for me.
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He'd had a dog once, in that way he'd had everything in his childhood, ordinary but a lot less lasting.
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It was easy to figure out how people ought to behave out in the world if you never went out in the world yourself.
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My home was in a pleasant place outside of Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the covers of books.
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It's a lot harder to save people than you think it is.
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One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.
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A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life.
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All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.
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Just remember that sometimes you drift into things, and then you can't get out of them. Not to decide is to decide.
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But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.
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Nearly everyone I meet expresses deep sympathy about the fact that I have never married. Sometimes I wonder why.
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Count your blessings, my father always said. It shames you, to count yours by the hardships of other people.
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I hid my wounds because I was ashamed...but now I know that I was also afraid of being reduced..
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Women are the glue that holds our day-to-day world together.
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Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.
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It's amazing how resilient people are, and how the things that didn't come true become,after a while, simply the way things are.
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She say guilt is a useless emotion.""Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals. — Anna Quindlen
Anyone familiar with the love affairs between men and women could have told them that theirs would soon be over.
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I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.
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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
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Maybe everyone stays the same inside, even when their life looks nothing like what they once had, or even imagined.
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High fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later.
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As though I had been flat water and now I was carbonated.
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In a democratic society, the only treason is silence.
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My husband and I have together created three children, but we have separate finances, and that's the way I like it.
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The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.
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You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership.
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Like cellulite creams or hair-loss tonics, capital punishment is one of those panaceas that isn't. Only it costs a whole lot more.
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We gave him to a family with a farm, Son, his father had said when he got home from school.
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Words, words. They mean nothing, less than nothing. I know.
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A fix-it man, they used to call it, when things still got fixed instead of just junked. If
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The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.
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All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.
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She had certainly learned about not having enough money, which is different from being poor.
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You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod.
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I was doing the family grocery shopping accompanied by two children, an event I hope to see included in the Olympics in the near future.
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Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest.
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A safety net of small white lies can be the bedrock of a successful marriage. You wouldn't believe how cheaply I can do a kitchen renovation.
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Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.
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It would take a hell of a man to replace no man at all.
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Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.
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She had violated one of the basic tenets of any competent cook: she had purchased a turkey without comparing its size to the size of her oven.
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I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
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Testosterone does not have to be toxic.
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The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.
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I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.
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I can't think of a single downside to motherhood now.
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Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.
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Ignorance is death. A closed mind is a catafalque.
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I am an affirmative action hire.
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We're part of a mixed marriage: he's male, I'm female.
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...there is a piece of me missing so big that the pain doubles me over, clawing at my gut...
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Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
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Occasionally Rebecca wished her son would not be so very kind to her, as though she was the losing pitcher on a Little League team.
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The curse of having young people about the house was that they were always so redolent of possibility.
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It is so easy to exist instead of live.
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There were a thousand ways to imagine someone unhappy and so few ways to imagine someone contented.
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The joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.
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Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.
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Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.
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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
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All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much undone and unsaid.
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And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.
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When men do the dishes, it's called helping. When women do the dishes, it is called life.
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A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world.
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When I'm falling, my girlfriends are my soft landing.
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For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like weddings.
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It was like death, except I had to go on living.
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Begin the work of becoming yourself.
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Funny, that no one had ever asked what had happened to the dishes, the scraps, the crumbs in the photographs, on the poster.
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People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
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If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.
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I am not alone. I am surrounded by words that tell me who I am, why I feel what I feel.
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Karma is a boomerang and a bitch.
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