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" Soccer may not explain the world or even contain the world. But it makes the world a slightly happier place. "
Pamela Druckerman
Soccer
Explain
Happier
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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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" 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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" 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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Humor
Interested
" French children seem to be able to play by themselves in a way. "
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Seem
Able
Children
" 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
Change
Childhood
" 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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Habits
" 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
" I guess we're all supposed to get used to living in a more dangerous world. "
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Used
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" The overarching conventional wisdom - what everyone from government experts to my French girlfriends take as articles of faith - is that restrictive diets generally don't make you healthier or slimmer. Instead, it's best to eat a variety of high-quality foods in moderation and pay attention to whether you're hungry. "
Pamela Druckerman
Government
Faith
Best
" Certain woman will be jealous of how skinny you are, no matter what's causing it. "
Pamela Druckerman
Jealous
You
Woman
" Around my neighborhood, I'm known as the American who talks to her computer while she types. "
Pamela Druckerman
She
American
Her
" 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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Back
Pain
Out
" 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. "
Pamela Druckerman
Citizen
Enough
Long
" 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. "
Pamela Druckerman
Say
America
Hope
" I'm always hoping no one is following me around with a camera. "
Pamela Druckerman
Always
Around
Me
" When you're further along in your career, you probably have more money and more means; you have to stop yourself from giving your child too much. Whereas, if you're in twenties, you might just get by. "
Pamela Druckerman
You
Child
Giving
" I think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to your life. "
Pamela Druckerman
You
Think
Writing
" In the English books, the American kids' books, typically, there is a problem, the characters grapple with that problem, and the problem is resolved. "
Pamela Druckerman
Problem
American
Books
" It's refreshing to have some time off from wondering whether I look fat. "
Pamela Druckerman
Fat
Look
Some
" 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. "
Pamela Druckerman
Here
Speak
Saying
" 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. "
Pamela Druckerman
World
American
Parenting
" 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
" I've gotten used to being a foreigner. "
Pamela Druckerman
Gotten
Being
Used
" 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. "
Pamela Druckerman
Great
Live
Creative
" 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. "
Pamela Druckerman
Parents
School
Reading
" 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
" 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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Perfection
Looking
Choices
" 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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Book
Idea
Good
" This idea - that the only way to mend the relationship post-affair is through therapy - is unique to the American script. "
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American
Way
Unique
" 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