If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.
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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
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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.
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Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.
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Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
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People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
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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.
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The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.
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The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.
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