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- Finished
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- Nov 07, 2020
A finished person is a boring person.
- Darkness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.
- Characterized
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
- Conventional Wisdom
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- Nov 07, 2020
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.
- Endings
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.
- Clearest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.
- Forks
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.
- Bible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.
- Equal Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.
- Affirmative Action
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an affirmative action hire.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I write that they're practically like a news scrim that goes through my brain 24/7.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.
- Nov 07, 2020
You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod.
- Cubism
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- Nov 07, 2020