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" Although I wrote a book about infidelity around the world, I ended up concluding that fidelity is quite a good idea. "
Pamela Druckerman
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" I hear people in their 20s describe the 40s as a far-off decade of too-late, when they'll regret things that they haven't done. But for older people I meet, the 40s are the decade that they would most like to travel back to. "
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" The main thing my bookcase says about me is that I'm not French. "
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" One of the maddening things about being a foreigner in France is that hardly anyone in the rest of the world knows what's really happening here. They think Paris is a socialist museum where people are exceptionally good at eating small bits of chocolate and tying scarves. "
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" When people used to ask me what I missed about America, I would say, 'The optimism.' I grew up in the land of hope, then moved to one whose catchphrases are 'It's not possible' and 'Hell is other people.' I walked around Paris feeling conspicuously chipper. "
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" I'm always hoping no one is following me around with a camera. "
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" I guess we're all supposed to get used to living in a more dangerous world. "
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" When I moved to Europe 12 years ago, my biggest concern was whether I'd ever speak decent French. Practically every American I knew came to visit, many saying they dreamed of living here, too. "
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" The question on my husband's birthday is always, What do you get for the man who has nothing? "
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" I've been vacationing in western North Carolina and northern Georgia since I was a kid. I arrive, marvel at the mountains, and put on an unconvincing Southern drawl. "
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" When we're in the U.S., my kids instantly start snacking all the time. I don't know how it happens. There is just more food available all the time. There aren't all these little different varieties of snack foods in France. "
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More
" It's fine to discuss money in France, as long as you're complaining that you don't have enough, or boasting about getting a bargain. "
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You
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" In the English books, the American kids' books, typically, there is a problem, the characters grapple with that problem, and the problem is resolved. "
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American
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" We're understandably worried that staring at screens all day, and blogging about our breakfasts, is turning America into a nation of narcissists. But the opposite might be true. "
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America
" Eating among the French certainly affected me. After a few years here, I gave up most of my selective food habits. "
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Eating
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" When I left for college, I put Miami behind me and tried to have a life of the mind. I got a graduate degree. I traveled. I even married a fellow writer, whose only real estate was a dingy one-bedroom apartment in Paris, where we lived. "
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" Usually, I'm so self-absorbed that my companion could be bleeding to death, and I might not notice. "
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Notice
Self-Absorbed
" I always knew the French had a penchant for criticism and abstract thought. Usually, that just meant they complained a lot. "
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Abstract
Always
Criticism
" Having lived in America and France, I've been on both sides of the picky-eating divide. "
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Both Sides
Lived
Sides
" A lot of French comedy is satire. "
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French
Lot
Satire
" The French don't think everyone should have the same bank balance, but they're offended by extremes of inequality. "
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Inequality
Bank
Balance
" Early childhood offerings vary, but everywhere in Europe and in Canada, they're far more generous than in the United States. Ukrainian dads may not change enough diapers, but their government offers paid maternity leave; practically free preschool; and per-baby payments equivalent to eight months of an average salary. "
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Government
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" I spent most of my adolescence feeling awkward but never once mentioned it. "
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Awkward
Feeling
" America's parenting customs can shock foreigners. "
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Parenting
America
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" One of the many problems with parenting is that kids keep changing. Just when you're used to one stage, they zoom into another. "
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" Teach your kids emotional intelligence. Help them become more evolved than you are. Explain that, for instance, not everyone will like them. "
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" I've got letters from all over the world saying what you're describing as American parenting is Chilean middle-class parenting, or it is Finnish middle-class parenting, or it is Slovak middle-class parenting. "
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" When my kids correct my cultural missteps, I sometimes suspect that they're not embarrassed, they're gleeful. "
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" When I was 41, I had a very bad back pain, and it turned out to be Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. "
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Pain
Out
" The whole point of a commencement speech is to say something encouraging. "
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" Soccer may not explain the world or even contain the world. But it makes the world a slightly happier place. "
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