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Today’s young parents are part of the most psychoanalyzed generation ever and have absorbed the idea that every choice we make could damage our kids. We also came of age during the divorce boom in the 1980s, and we’re determined to act more
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“You can’t just do what you want, she thought. Why should Mia get to, when no one else did?”
― Little Fires Everywhere
― Little Fires Everywhere
“Choices, numberless as grains of sand, had layered and compressed, coalescing into sediment, then into rock, until all was set in stone.”
― Educated
― Educated
“The summits were about ambitious topics, such as, recently, leadership—leadership being something that everyone now wanted, as if the world could be made up entirely of leaders and no followers, the way children might crave an all-fireman, all-ballerina society.”
― The Female Persuasion
― The Female Persuasion
“The good life demands a lot of maintenance.”
― Before We Were Yours
― Before We Were Yours
“In my time we had very few words, perhaps a hundred that we used all the time, and thirty of them were synonyms for guilt.”
― Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
― Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
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