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“Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and no power is more absolute than parenthood.”
― Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

“Never be bored, and you will never be boring.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud’s work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon

“The lessons she'd been forced to learn were dry spare things, the facts without the sense of them, given in the simplest of language, as if words might disguise the truth or (worse) bring it to life.”
― Robin McKinley, The Hero and the Crown