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Rae’s 2025 Year in Books
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Dear girl, still leading the way
Suddenly, I am old and I’m in brand new territory. I shouldn’t be surprised. I did not age overnight, it’s been coming for a long while. But…
The weekend I turned forty, I spent on backcountry skis for eight hours each day, as fit as I had ever been. On top of the world, invincible. And when I returned to work on Monday, a black balloon was tied to my desk chair. It said “OVER THE HILL!” I crie
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“The failure of decision makers to grapple with the inner workings of their own minds, and their desire to indulge their gut feelings, made it “quite likely that the fate of entire societies may be sealed by a series of avoidable mistakes committed by their leaders.”
― The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
― The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
“The job of the decision maker wasn’t to be right but to figure out the odds in any decision and play them well.”
― The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
― The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
“In an interview I did with David Brooks in 2019, the genially conservative New York Times columnist reflected on the social agony criticizing Trump had caused him. “I had been part of the conservative movement my whole life,” he told me. “The Weekly Standard. The Wall Street Journal National Review Washington Times. Suddenly, I wasn’t the kind of conservative all the other conservatives were, and so my social circles drifted away.”
― Why We're Polarized
― Why We're Polarized
“Do I know how to love, how not to harm, how to protect and defend, how to be sanctuary? I have believed from the moment I gave birth to Alex and Benjamin, my kept children, that I know the obligations of a mother’s love. My two young sons are growing up inside their trust in me. I try so hard to be a good mother. I am safety, tenderness, praise. But I am also, always, the child cast out to the world a long time ago. I move between the sorrows of my past and an unrelenting will to love my children well. I am child, and I am mother.”
― Without a Map: A Memoir
― Without a Map: A Memoir
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