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But it doesn’t work that way. You don’t have a family. You make a family.
“Well,” Mrs. Plumber was saying decisively into the telephone, “I have discovered the secret of life.” Wow, thought Harriet. “My dear, it’s very simple, you just take to your bed. You just refuse to leave it for anything or anybody.”
― Harriet the Spy
― Harriet the Spy
“Maryland’s largest school district grants teachers a ridiculously paltry two days of paid maternity leave—zero employer-paid days for adoptive leave, paternity leave, or other family leave issues—and actively opposed a state bill to improve paid family leave.”
― The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
― The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
“there is no all-purpose definition of introversion or extroversion; these are not unitary categories, like “curly-haired” or “sixteen-year-old,” in which everyone can agree on who qualifies for inclusion.”
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“we have to shift from a mindset of shame, which sees anxiety as evidence of brokenness, to a mindset of curiosity, which recognizes that anxiety is evidence of our sensitive heart, our imaginative mind,”
― The Wisdom of Anxiety: How Worry and Intrusive Thoughts Are Gifts to Help You Heal
― The Wisdom of Anxiety: How Worry and Intrusive Thoughts Are Gifts to Help You Heal
“Dr. Karen Singh liked to say that an unwanted thought was like a car driving past you when you’re standing on the side of the road, and I told myself I didn’t have to get into that car, that my moment of choice was not whether to have the thought, but whether to be carried away by it.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
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