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" I love teenagers. I loved being a teenager. "
Isabel Gillies
Being A Teenager
Loved
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" Sometimes it makes me sad that I didn't get to have one family for my entire life. "
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" I am not a writer, but I have been told I write good emails. "
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" When I think of the moment I knew that my marriage to Josiah would end, there were a few moments before I really, really knew. I probably knew, when I saw my ex-husband and his now wife - then colleague - having tea together in his office, that something was amiss. "
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" I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutors through college. But I had a very strong impulse to write. "
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" I don't think anyone would bat an eye if I wrote a song. "
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" Anita Shreve is an author I adore. I rip through her meaty books and get off on the robust romance immensely - especially if I am feeling less than robust in my real life. "
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" Accounts of eating Christmas sweet potatoes baked in ashes and jackrabbit stewed with white flour dumplings are testaments to pioneer resilience and pleasure - and they help inspire my own best scratch cooking. "
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" As moisturizers, oils rapidly penetrate the deeper layers of the skin, protecting against the breakdown of proteins in the cell wall with fatty and linoleic acids, mimicking what our bodies produce naturally. The oils also function as humectants, which help our skin retain moisture. "
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" I dropped off my kids from 10 to 2, went to the library, and just wrote. This is my second career - I'm 41 - and I'm a terrible speller. "
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" I really think the human experience is very similar for everyone; we're all doing slightly different versions of the same thing. "
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" Reading cookbooks will help with just about anything in your life, including heartbreak. "
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" I had been living in Ohio in my own house with my own life when my marriage abruptly came to an end. I had nowhere to go with my two sons, very little money, and not much to do in Ohio except be someone's ex-wife. My parents instantly and very generously invited my family to move back home to New York, where I could begin again. "
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" No one is all good or all bad, and there's many different ways to go about your life. "
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" My mother worked full-time running a foundation, but she found all the time in the world to have supper ready every night, feed us shirred eggs on the weekends, and produce a leg of lamb for my fourth-grade Bedouin feast at school. "
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" Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing. "
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" I think even if you haven't been divorced, you can hopefully relate to having to navigate through a really difficult time and see how you can get through to the other side and how you can stay positive, even if there's some really bad stuff happening. "
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" You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better. "
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" Sprinkling drops of lavender and clary-sage oil into a bath is a totally simple yet complex pleasure. "
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" When I was growing up, my mother worked, and in the evenings, the whole family would sit around the dinner table and recount the day. "
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" Life is funny, at the same time being totally harsh. "
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" When you work alone at home, time can become shapeless. There are no eleven o'clock meetings or afternoon coffee breaks. The light outside may clue me in to what part of the day it is, but if all is going well, the hours bleed together. "
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" There has never been a shrimp that I've eaten that I haven't been like, 'I am so lucky that I get to eat this.' I would eat a shrimp enchilada, shrimp burrito, shrimp cocktail, fried shrimp, shrimp po boy, shrimp gumbo. "
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" It was a long time ago: 'Angela's Ashes' by Frank McCourt. It was a great story that was lasting, and I loved it so much. I also love Nora Ephron. I gobble up everything she writes. Also, I love Anthony Bourdain, very irreverent and funny. "
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" My mother has always been a worker bee, but she's also a serious foodie. "
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" When your heart is broken, you feel like no freaking book in the world could help you because a book is not the person who you love, who doesn't love you. However, books help, if only because they serve as something you can hold in your hand and throw across the room in agony. "
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" It's not easy to slather your face with oil. It requires a little bit of work to smooth it on and rub it in. You become more familiar with the feel of your own skin and face. "
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