- Nov 07, 2020
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- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've written out itineraries for baby sitters with years of experience. I've gotten up in the middle of the night and stood over my children's sleeping bodies just to make sure they're breathing, and breathing well. In short, I'm the worst Jewish mother in the world. I make Alexander Portnoy's mother look like a laid-back Earth mama.
- Hatch
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- Nov 07, 2020
What an awful burden we mothers and fathers, Jewish and not, have to bear - to hatch a thing we love more than ourselves into a world so fundamentally unworthy.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
At times, our collective anger seems a worthwhile thing - it has a weight and shape and force we couldn't achieve as individuals - but at other times, I can't help wondering how much it really accomplishes, if in some ways it might even impede us in our attempts to be more thoughtful, 'enlightened' human beings.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an angsty teenager and college student, I used to mock people who lived in gated communities, who were so afraid of the unfamiliar world they had to erect a physical boundary to keep it at bay. But now I wonder, aren't the boundaries we draw with Facebook just as secure as a man-made moat or an underpaid security guard manning a booth?
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
My husband and I both attended public schools. We believe in the benefits, both individual and communal, of supporting public schools.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sure all of us can find fault in our own education, and I certainly wished at times that I'd had other options. My own K-12 education may have been free and easy, but it wasn't necessarily very good.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always knew my mother loved me, but I also knew just as surely that there were moments, hours, days, when she could hardly cope with her own life, much less motherhood. Often, these episodes came without warning, like a change in weather, and so I became a meteorologist of her dysphoria.
- Intended
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had never intended to be a stay-at-home-mom.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 15 when I first read 'The Feminine Mystique,' locked in my bedroom, probably wearing black, groping for any ideas I could find on how not to become my mother.
- Essential Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time we watch a little story play out inside our head, we're fantasizing, whether we realize it or not, and it seems to me that, though succumbing to fantasies about other people can be dangerous or self-defeating, the act of fantasizing itself is also an essential part of being human, of being capable of both abstraction and empathy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For so much of my young life, I'd felt lonely, isolated, cut off from like-minded people. I yearned for human connections and relationships with the sort of people I knew only from books and movies, a lifeline into some other, richer world.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I read stories of suffering, I still feel something. It seems inhuman not to. At the same time, I'm more aware than ever of how little my feeling is worth, of how - if we are to truly keep alive the conditions that make ethical life possible - it is not empathy that's needed but insight, organization, and action.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
A father who is distracted for a few minutes by his myriad interests and obligations in the world of adult interactions is being, well, a father. A mother who does the same is failing her children.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is so much people hate about Kim Kardashian, it sometimes seems as though her critics get as much enjoyment out of her as her fans.
- Motherhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Motherhood has become a battleground on which prejudice and class resentment can be waged without ever admitting that's what we're doing.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is impossible to make it a crime to take your eyes off your children without also making it a crime to be poor.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020