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"Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?"
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"I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind."
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Personal Development
"Fear is a disease of mind we inherit from society."
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Personal Development
"Fear deprives us the fullness of existence."
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Personal Development
"Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark."
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Personal Development
"A monster's worst fear is of being found."
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Personal Development
"Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it."
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Personal Development
"Until you break through the walls of fear, you will not be able to reach the door of opportunity."
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Personal Development
"So many horrid Ghosts."
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"There are things so horrible that even the dark is afraid of them. Most people don't know this and this is just as well because the world could not really operate if everyone stayed in bed with the blankets over their head, which is what would happen if people knew what horrors lay a shadow's width away."
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Personal Development
"Do not allow the anxiety on how you will achieve your goals stop you from dreaming."
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"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."
Change
"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 being a woman consists of picking up garbage."
Woman
"There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too."
Romantic
"Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number."
Lifestyle
"Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?"
Fear
"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."
Family
"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."
Marriage
"If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books."
God
"Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us."
People
"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."
People
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