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"We watch them grow, with sadness and amazement and fear. We have stepped away, but not entirely away. They know this. They sense it. We are no longer here, but we are not yet gone. And we will be like that for the rest of their lives.We watch, and they surprise us.We watch, and they surpass us."
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"Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child."
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"It's so awful, attacking your child. It's the worse thing I know, to shout loudly at this 50 lb. being with his huge trusting brown eyes. It's like bitch-slapping E.T."
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Personal Development
"Most parents are not really 'supportive' because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they 'support' their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures - in the eyes of their peers and/or neighbours."
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Personal Development
"Our parents thought we might be corrupted by one another into becoming whatever it was they most feared: an incorrigible masturbator, a winsome homosexual, a recklessly impregnatory libertine. On our behalf they dreaded the closeness of adolescent friendship, the predatory behaviour of strangers on trains, the lure of the wrong kind of girl. How far their anxieties outran our experience."
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Personal Development
"Nature attunes children to receive the coded messages that parents issue how to live a joyful and virtuous life."
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"Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation."
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Personal Development
"Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John."
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Personal Development
"A child learns to be guilty when he is punished and scolded for damaging material objects."
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Personal Development
"It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them."
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Personal Development
"Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly."
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"I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own?"
Identity
"Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other."
Psychology
"When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it."
Survival
"I had yet to learn that when it came to gender, I was both and neither."
Identity
"It doesn't work, she continues, unclasping her hands, smoothing her skirt. "What you're feeling right now doesn't work. You can't wander around and think the wandering will call them back. Believe me. I know you don't want to hear the long view, but let me tell you. You are so young. I know it's none of my business. But still."
Wisdom
"Let's always love each other, and never be in love with each other."
Relationship
"I hate that would. Straight. At the very least, those of us who are nonstraight should get to be called curvy. Or scenic. Actually, I like that: 'Do you think she's straight?' 'Oh no. She's scenic."
Identity
"We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough."
Acceptance
"There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with."
Friendship
"...It's just nice to see you out from his shadow. Because things don't grow in the shadows, you know? So it was frustrating to see you standing there...and really cool to see you step out of it. I don't know who this new guy is, but make sure when you're with him, you're not standing in his shadow. Stand where everyone can see you."
Self
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