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" I've never gotten a good idea while checking Twitter or shopping. "

Pamela Druckerman

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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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" I don't like rules, because rules, you have to follow. "

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" The main thing my bookcase says about me is that I'm not French. "

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" 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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" In my 40s, I expect to finally reap the average-looking girl's revenge. I've entered the stage of life where you don't need to be beautiful; simply by being well-preserved and not obese, I would now pass for pretty. "

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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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" 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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" Optimism - even, and perhaps especially in the face of difficulty - has long been an American hallmark. "

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" 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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" 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. "

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" I think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to your life. "

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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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" Every time I pass a cafe, I imagine it being stormed by men with Kalashnikovs. "

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" 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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" 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. "

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" Even for natives, French satire is rarely laugh-out-loud funny. Its unspoken punch line is typically that things have gone irrevocably wrong, and the government is to blame. "

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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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" I'm always hoping no one is following me around with a camera. "

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" I spend much of my free time listening to podcasts of American comedians talking to each other. "

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" We Anglophones have reasons for adopting strange diets. Increasingly, we live alone. We have an unprecedented choice of foods, and we're not sure what's in them or whether they're good for us. And we expect to customize practically everything: parenting, news, medicines, even our own faces. "

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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. "

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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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" In the Nineties, there was all this new research into brain development, with evidence saying poor kids fall behind in school because no one is talking to them at home, no one is reading to them. And middle-class parents seized on this research. "

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" 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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" The French don't think everyone should have the same bank balance, but they're offended by extremes of inequality. "

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" I guess we're all supposed to get used to living in a more dangerous world. "

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" I had applied to become French - or, rather, Franco-American, as I'm now a dual citizen - partly because I could: I'd lived and paid taxes here for long enough. "

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" 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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