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I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you? — Mary Pipher

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom. — Mary Caroline Richards

It all began to seem unreal, the chairs and the waiting and the dead girl at home in the closet. — Kelly Braffet

Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing. — Helen Keller

We are a small, interconnected world; that we are all safe or none of us are; that we are all well cared for or all at risk. — Mary Pipher

America today limits girls' development, truncates their wholeness and leaves many of them traumatized. — Mary Pipher

By high school, some girls may be mature enough to be sexually active, but my experience is that the more mature and healthy girls avoid sex. — Mary Pipher

I get up very early in the morning. I enjoy the quietness, the stillness, the rawness in the winter and fall. It's a special time. — Edward Kennedy

Every man, who desires to become a true father, has to look continually to the Lord, that he might learn of Him how to relate to his own children — Sunday Adelaja

Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can get them killed. — Mary Pipher

I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying. — Alan Alda

It's virtually impossible in America to be heavy and feel good about oneself. — Mary Pipher

It is a mistake to assume that the law should always enforce morality. — Peter Singer

All feelings are acceptable, but all behavior isn't. — Mary Pipher

In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years. — Aleksandr Lebed

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts. — Mary Pipher

The protected place in space and time that we once called childhood has grown shorter. — Mary Pipher

In all the years I've been a therapist, I've yet to meet one girl who likes her body. — Mary Pipher

Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger. — Mary Pipher

One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking. — Mary Pipher

Sometimes our stop-doing list needs to be bigger than our to-do list. — Patti Digh

She said, Let's face it, the world isn't exactly waiting for girls like me. — Mary Pipher

Being fat means being left out, scorned, and vilified. — Mary Pipher

Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness. — Mary Pipher

Kenny Dalglish is a hero of mine and is the best player to ever wear a red shirt. — Steven Gerrard

The fullness of life comes from an identity built on giving and on joy. — Mary Pipher

Authenticity is an "owning" of all experience, including emotions and thoughts that are not socially acceptable. — Mary Pipher

Therapy isn't Radio.We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen. — Mary Pipher

I want to write. I have always wanted to write. I do not care it I am not good at it. I just want to try. — Mary Pipher

With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts. — Mary Pipher

The two most radical things you can do in America are to slow down, and to talk to each other. If you do these things, you will improve your country. — Mary Pipher

The best way to destroy the decrepit is to build the glorious. — Stefan Molyneux

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. — Mark Twain

Telling stories never fails to produce good in the universe. — Mary Pipher

Intelligent resistance keeps the true self alive — Mary Pipher

When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our pain and that of others. — Mary Pipher

The battle for popularity is won, but the war for respect as a whole person is lost. — Mary Pipher

All geniuses born women are lost to the public good. — Mary Pipher

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup. — Mary Pipher