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" I'm always hoping no one is following me around with a camera. "
Pamela Druckerman
Always
Around
Me
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" Soon after Donald Trump was inaugurated, I got a letter from France's interior ministry informing me that I was now French. By the time it arrived, I'd been French for nearly two weeks without even knowing it. "
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Time
Me
" I think kids in France, and certainly in my household, don't necessarily stop interrupting when you tell them, but they gradually become more aware of other people, and that means that you can have the expectation of finishing a conversation. "
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Stop
People
Think
" Get rid of the idea of kids' food. Kids can eat whatever adults can eat. You know, there is one dinner, and everyone has the same thing. "
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Dinner
Know
" There's this idea in America that you can be whatever you want. That remains an ideal in terms of how you dress too - when you go shopping, you try on all possible selves and then decide. "
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America
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" Before Donald Trump took office, optimism about his presidency was the lowest of any president-elect since at least the 1970s. "
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" When you're the foreigner and your kids are the natives, they realize you're clueless much sooner than they ordinarily would. I'm pretty sure mine skipped the Mommy-is-infallible stage entirely. "
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Pretty
You
Your
" 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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You
Problems
Parenting
" The main thing my bookcase says about me is that I'm not French. "
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Me
Main
Says
" I'm speaking in very broad brushstrokes, but in France, there's generally this idea that you should look like the best version of the age that you are. "
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Like
France
You
" While I love walking past those beautifully lit bookstores in my neighborhood, what I mostly buy there are blank notebooks and last-minute presents for children's birthdays. "
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Walking
Past
Birthdays
" If you want to know how old you look, just walk into a French cafe. It's like a public referendum on your face. "
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Face
Look
Want
" I'm not an early adopter. I'll only start wearing new styles of clothing once they're practically out of date, and I won't move into a neighborhood until it's fully saturated with upscale coffee shops. "
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Coffee
Clothing
Early
" The French talk about education, the education of their children. They don't talk about raising kids. They talk about education. And that has nothing to do with school. It's this kind of broad description of how you raise children and what you teach them. "
Pamela Druckerman
Education
Teach
You
" 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
Food
Habits
" The French view is really one of balance, I think... What French women would tell me over and over is, it's very important that no part of your life - not being a mom, not being a worker, not being a wife - overwhelms the other part. "
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Life
Women
Balance
" Every time I pass a cafe, I imagine it being stormed by men with Kalashnikovs. "
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Pass
Being
Cafe
" Parisiennes rarely walk around wearing the giant diamonds that are de rigueur in certain New York neighborhoods. "
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Walk
New York
New
" A large part of the creative process is tolerating the gap between the glorious image you had in your mind and the sad thing you've just made. "
Pamela Druckerman
Sad
Image
Mind
" 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. "
Pamela Druckerman
Long
You
Complaining
" 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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Start
Time
More
" The French aren't known for being hilarious. When I told Parisians I was interested in French humor, they'd say 'French what?' "
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Known
Humor
Interested
" There's an American idea that you want to look as young as you can for as long as you can. If you can be mistaken for a teenager from behind into your 50s, then you've won; you've succeeded. "
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Young
You
American
" If you had asked me what I wanted when I was 12 years old, I probably would have said, 'To marry a plastic surgeon.' You can hardly blame me: I was growing up in Miami. "
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Said
You
Miami
" When my mother in Florida mentions that she's off to play golf, I think: Golf? In the age of Trump? "
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Think
Age
Golf
" Discrimination was a problem before terrorism. Now, the bad deeds of a few people have made life worse for millions. "
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Life
Terrorism
Problem
" Where Americans might coo over a child's most inane remark to boost his confidence, middle-class French parents teach their kids to be concise and amusing, to keep everyone listening. "
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Confidence
Parents
Listening
" One of the great joys of a creative life is that your observations and loose moments aren't lost forever; they live in your work. "
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Great
Live
Creative
" When I tell French parents that I know lots of American kids who will eat only pasta or only white rice, they can't believe it. I mean, they can understand how the kid left to his own devices might do that, but they can't imagine that parents would allow that to happen. "
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Believe
Parents
White
" I'm a third-generation Miamian. I'm fond of it. I'm an expatriate, so it's the only American city I can still legitimately claim. "
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Only
Claim
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" My family was once invited to lunch at a chateau owned by a friend of a friend. As we drove our rental car up to the giant castle, my kids gasped and said, 'They must be rich!' "
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Rich
Car
Said