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" After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.' "

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" The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools. "

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" Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them. "

" I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. "

" Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us. "

" The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not. "

" Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed. "

" Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules. "

" There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger. "

" All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child. "

" Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat. "

" You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod. "

" Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around. "

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" But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated. "

" There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too. "

" I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. "

" I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. "

" If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail. "

" New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage. "

" A finished person is a boring person. "

" The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. "

" All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women. "

" Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle. "

" Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts. "

" Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number. "