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“Do you have an opinion on anything?” “Not really.” It was true, in a way. Opinions were for other people. It was fascinating how upset they got about them.”
― Three Wishes
― Three Wishes
“The study of law was unusual for women of my generation. For most girls growing up in the 1940s, the most important degree was not your B.A., but your M.R.S.” —RBG”
― Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
― Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“Why is it amazing that I don’t act my age? Why should I act my age? Or more to the point, how is someone my age supposed to act? Old age is part fact, part state of mind, part luck, and wholly something best left for other people to ponder, not you or me. Why waste your time? I don’t.”
― Keep Moving: And Other Truths About Living Well Longer
― Keep Moving: And Other Truths About Living Well Longer
“Soon they'll be grown-up. Mothers have no armor to get them through life because they give every last bit to their children, by the end of their teenage years there isn't even any skin left, so every feeling of loss cuts right into her flesh now.”
― The Winners
― The Winners
“All children are victims of their parents’ childhoods, because all adults try to give their kids what they themselves enjoyed or lacked. In the end everything is either a revolt against the adults we encountered or an attempt to copy them. That’s why someone who hated their own childhood often has greater empathy than someone who loved theirs. Because someone who had a hard time dreamed of other realities, but someone who had it easy can hardly imagine that things could be any different. We take happiness so easily for granted if we’ve had it from the start.”
― The Winners
― The Winners
Parkway Book Club
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— last activity Jun 20, 2009 09:07AM
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Rainy Day Readers
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— last activity Jul 14, 2014 10:10PM
Best new book club west of the Snake River.
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