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“Why do women prefer adventurers who make them suffer, rather than men who are kind and attentive? Are they seduced by the man or by the vast horizons he allows them to glimpse? Is it the man they love or the dream he represents?”
― In the City of Gold and Silver: The Story of Begum Hazrat Mahal
― In the City of Gold and Silver: The Story of Begum Hazrat Mahal
“You’re only as happy as your least happy child,’ is the best description of motherhood I have ever read.”
― Perfectly Miserable: Guilt, God and Real Estate in a Small Town
― Perfectly Miserable: Guilt, God and Real Estate in a Small Town
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
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Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
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“The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words. ”
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“The young can exasperate, of course, and frighten, and condescend, and insult, and cut you with their still unrounded edges. But they can also drag you, as you protest and scold and try to pull away, right up to the window of the future, and even push you through.”
― The Chaperone
― The Chaperone
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