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"But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated."
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"I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble."

"Yes, there was nothing else to do to get you high. I mean, there was, but white kids didn't hear about it."

"I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives."

"Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us."

"I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to New Kids on the Block."

"If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want."

"I'm proud of my kids, they are doing what they want to do."

"Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught."
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"All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child."

"In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat."

"I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me."

"People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it."

"If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children."

"I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words."

"Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle."

"The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female."

"There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger."

"America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security."
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