Joy Browne Quotes

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• In its purest form, dating is auditioning for mating (and auditioning means we may or may not get the part).
• Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.
• When in doubt, do the obvious.
• Charity always feels better to the donor than to the recipient.
• If we give up the notion that everybody’s life is perfect but ours, we would be a lot happier. Nobody’s life is perfect.
• Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood.
• How do you take something and make it special? The answer is a lot of hard work and a great deal of imagination.
• Infidelity, cheating is the easiest, stupidest, dumbest thing you can do.
• It does no good to be right, if what you're craving is wrong.
• It is a lot harder to put something back together than to keep it running.
• It's not unusual for kids in their twenties to be mad at their parents.
• Most of sex is psychological - most of it is between our ears and not between our legs.
• Opposites attract - and then aggravate.
• Sex is meant to be, if not addictive, at least a very compelling behavior.
• She's an idiot. She's looking at life through a selfish, lusty haze.
• Take your hurt feelings and channel them into political activism.
• We've turned into a nation of mothers to our men. I think it's a dreadful mistake that doesn't benefit anybody.
• When a guy says, "Don't make a fuss over my birthday," he means "Don't make a fuss over my birthday". When we say "Don't make…
• You can certainly go to war about it, but to me it seems pointless.
• You don't need a reason to divorce someone you can't stand.

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