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How one approaches parenting is about the person you are. The parents you get is a game of chance for everyone.”
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Katharine Hepburn
“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
Katharine Hepburn

Abbi Waxman
“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. —ANAÏS NIN”
Abbi Waxman, The Garden of Small Beginnings

Eleanor Brown
“She remembered one of her boyfriends asking, offhandedly, how many books she read in a year. "A few hundred," she said.
"How do you have the time?" he asked, gobsmacked.
She narrowed her eyes and considered the array of potential answers in front of her. Because I don't spend hours flipping through cable complaining there's nothing on? Because my entire Sunday is not eaten up with pre-game, in-game, and post-game talking heads? Because I do not spend every night drinking overpriced beer and engaging in dick-swinging contests with the other financirati? Because when I am waiting in line, at the gym, on the train, eating lunch, I am not complaining about the wait/staring into space/admiring myself in reflective surfaces? I am reading!
"I don't know," she said, shrugging.”
Eleanor Brown, The Weird Sisters

“I maintain my sanity because I feel comfortable with what I have chosen to let tumble for a moment while I focus on keeping something else aloft. Everyone must create their own priorities and choose where to concentrate limited energies on any given day. Certainly, it’s the greatest waste of energy to stare at all the fallen balls and worry we dropped the wrong ones. Accept imperfection. Ask for help.”
Eliza Reid, Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland's Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World

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