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"I got introduced to audiobooks because of having a baby."
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"It's a fool who thinks that having a kid is a right, which is the biggest crock of fishheads I've ever heard. You have a responsibility, not only to a person but also to a spirit because that's what a child is. A pissing, crying, yawning, giggling, laughing package of spirit that is looking for you to take the lead. It's a heck of a responsibility to look after a spirit."

"I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body."

"The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn."

"If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up."

"Some children are threatened with loss of privileges such as money, cell phones, cars or even eviction from home if they do not 'toe-the-line' and 'act straight'. I don't think parents who do such things consider for a moment the kind of emotional damage they are doing to their children - or thinking beyond their own feelings about the situation - which will not change or go away simply because of their denial."

"We have to be back in three hours," Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again.""This," Gansey replied "is precisely why I didn't want to have a baby with you."

"She's my daughter. The only one I have and the only child I'll ever have. I see the fear in her eyes, I sense her hesitancy, but when I get her to smile it makes up for all those moments in between. I got this one chance. My last chance. I don't want to blow what little time I have left with her so no, I don't want anyone rocking her world."

"My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author."
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"Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to."


"Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear."


"So that would be a classic mixed message to young women: you should look a certain way that's going to destroy your reproductive system and your sexual appetite, but at the same time, you should be interested in sex!"
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