- Nov 07, 2020
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- Perfectionism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
- Floats
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- Nov 07, 2020
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
- Four
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.
- Big Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the Mommies to the Republican Daddies; and everyone hates the mommies, but wait, wait - I didn't intend to get into the pathos and thrill of being a Democratic Giants fan.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway.
- Flower
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.
- Clue
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.
- Egyptians
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- Nov 07, 2020