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- Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay…
- The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of the last century…
- I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen.…
- Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you…
- After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight…
- The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
- I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough…
- New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of…
- The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into…
- Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is really…
- While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who…
- Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came…
- There's some muscle group around your shoulders that seizes up during the perfection dance and doesn't let go until you are asleep, or alone. Or…
- I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
- What's really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
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- Beautician: the official occupation of the 'I wear too much make-up fat girl'. — Nikhil Saluja
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- Do you know how much you mean to me? Do you know that you are the first thing I think of when… — Superman
- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold