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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!' "
Pamela Druckerman
Rich
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" 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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" I gradually understood why European mothers aren't in perpetual panic about their work-life balance and don't write books about how executive moms should just try harder: Their governments are helping them - and doing it competently. "
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" Not many foreigners move to Paris for their dream job. Many do it on a romantic whim. "
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" Just as dressing well in your forties entails making choices that reflect who you are and not just wearing generic basics, looking good as you get older requires accentuating and enjoying what's specific to you rather than striving for cookie-cutter perfection. "
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" Around my neighborhood, I'm known as the American who talks to her computer while she types. "
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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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" 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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Want
" 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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" I've gotten used to being a foreigner. "
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" Remember that the problem with hyper-parenting isn't that it's bad for children; it's that it's bad for parents. "
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" Podcasts immersed me in colloquial English and put me back in the American zeitgeist. "
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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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" Practically every time I speak up at a school conference, a political event, or my apartment building association's annual meeting, I'm met with a display of someone else's superior intelligence. "
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" 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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" 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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" Having lived in America and France, I've been on both sides of the picky-eating divide. "
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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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" The French don't think everyone should have the same bank balance, but they're offended by extremes of inequality. "
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" Optimism - even, and perhaps especially in the face of difficulty - has long been an American hallmark. "
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