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Scott Simon has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to…
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So: this is where we are going to become parents. You walk into the building as a couple, and leave a few…
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Adoption is rewarding. But the process, as we have already detailed in some particulars, can be expensive, exhausting, and hard to sustain…
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Race, blood, lineage, and nationality don't matter; they're just the way that small minds keep score. All that matters about blood is…
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There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so…
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It's not the cost (although that pinches), or the time (though that grinds). After a while, it's the sheer galling indignity of…
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Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels…
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Fifteen-year-old girls produce children with sixteen-year-old boys in the backseat of cars and in the stairwells of apartment buildings. Why can't two…
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I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That…
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Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas.
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Problems, however, are rarely solved on the spur of the moment. They must be organized and dissected, then key issues isolated and…
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There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.
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Gestation requires protected space; ripening requires both permeability to the outer — and non-disturbance.
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A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows…
— Rosamond Lehmann
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Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could…
— Tillie Olsen
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Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels…
— Scott Simon
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