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The word NO, carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.
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I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves…
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A good home must be made, not bought.
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My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for…
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Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards…
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It's not only children who grow. Parents do too...
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Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt…
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As for me, I've chosen to follow a simple course: Come clean. And wherever possible, live your life in a way that…
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If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting…
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I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells…
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It's sad but true that if you focus your attention on housework and meal preparation and diapers, raising children does start to…
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Before I had children I always wondered whether their births would be, for me, like the ultimate in gym class failures. And…
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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
— Xenocrates
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Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility…
— Chris Kraus
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You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.
— Gautama Buddha
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But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.
— Maurice Blanchot
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When I break My Silence, the impact of My Love will be universal and all life in creation will know, feel and…
— Meher Baba
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I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.
— Muriel Rukeyser
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My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to…
— Anna Kamienska
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People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.
— Umar
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I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.
— Chen Guangcheng
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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
— Joseph Conrad
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Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a…
— Dalai Lama
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