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- Nov 07, 2020
Piercing minds go mute around poetry. It is imagined to be overly technical, like advanced arithmetic; otherworldly, priestess-like; suffocatingly personal; excessively decorative; exhaustingly bourgeois or tiringly avant-garde.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
My husband was 50; I was in my late 30s. We had lived adulthoods that did not include infants, except as metaphors. And then, like so many in today's America, we had a baby in later life.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even as a child, I had walked down streets reading novels, waiting for my feet to get stuck in tar as I crossed the road, like the absent-minded animal in a Richard Scarry kid's book.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unnatural constructs - cities and medical pain management - have always seemed pretty good to me.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw my gender - and myself - as something of a construct. Like anyone who read one too many women studies' books in the 1990s, I aspired to both 'do' and undo my sex.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a set of emotions around money and new technology and advertising and that sort of thing, and there is this kind of changing, transforming way we go through the world happening. The lyrical eye, the perspective of poetry, can get to something like this when other forms of writing can't.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was doing my research for 'Branded,' I'd meet groups of teenagers and preteenagers or tweens, and they would laugh at a magazine spread in a women's magazine or teen girl magazine and say, 'I'd never buy this outfit. I know these girls are starving themselves.' But they probably would go out and buy the thing eventually.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think teens trust each other's opinions about products because of the quality of authenticity that they think their friend's recommendation has.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think cool originates with the jazz culture in the '40s. There was probably cool before that, but that's when people started talking about cool - Miles Davis and Charlie Parker and a bunch of other early, cool jazz folk.
- Happy Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
While more people are working later in life because of happy things like longer life expectancy, they are also doing so because of very sad things, like a lack of Social Security benefits or retirement plans.
- Birth
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a psychological and physical toll from the pressure to recreate ourselves in midlife. To survive as workers, we have to deny, on some level, the realities of our bodies - bodies that age and give birth.
- Encouraging
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- Nov 07, 2020
Self-reinvention is an encouraging conceit. It is simply not always a possible one.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's a contempt for care work and caregiving in this country that seeps into how we think about mothers, professional workers who are mothers.
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got pregnant with my daughter, both my husband and I were freelancers, and we didn't have that much security. We had savings. We were better off than many people, but we didn't have, you know, pensions and all the things that people used to have.
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- Nov 07, 2020