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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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The writer, like a swimmer caught by an undertow, is borne in an unexpected direction. He is carried to a subject which…
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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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The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive,
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The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podiatrist - is…
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The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the…
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A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight…
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Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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