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Love is inexact, Henry said. It is not a science. It is barely a noun. It means one thing to one person, and one thing to another. It means one thing to one person at one point and then something else at another point. It doesn’t make
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“there is no universal standard of well-being.”
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― Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
“sometimes you cannot clear the past completely. You must live alongside your sorrow. The”
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― The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
“We all face the prospect that what is supposed to be a private decision—the termination of a pregnancy—might become the first step in a campaign to eliminate people with disabilities.”
― Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
― Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
“Disabled people are protected by fragile laws, and if they are judged to have an identity rather than an illness, they may forfeit those safeguards.”
― Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
― Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
“In his classic work Stigma, Erving Goffman argues that identity is formed when people assert pride in the thing that made them marginal, enabling them to achieve personal authenticity and political credibility.”
― Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
― Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
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