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" When I was 41, I had a very bad back pain, and it turned out to be Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. "
Pamela Druckerman
Back
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Out
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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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" 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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" 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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" Like practically everyone who grew up in Miami, I knew little about its history. We were more worried about mangoes falling on our cars. "
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" 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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" I'm always hoping no one is following me around with a camera. "
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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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" Sometimes I just tell my kids, 'Outside of France, I'm considered completely normal.' This worked until we traveled to London. "
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" 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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" 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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" I don't like rules, because rules, you have to follow. "
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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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" 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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" Parisiennes rarely walk around wearing the giant diamonds that are de rigueur in certain New York neighborhoods. "
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New York
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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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" 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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Me
" French children seem to be able to play by themselves in a way. "
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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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" I think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to your life. "
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You
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" Unlike the time sink of binge-watching a TV series, podcasts actually made me more efficient. Practically every dull activity - folding laundry, applying makeup - became tolerable when I did it while listening to a country singer describing his hardscrabble childhood, or a novelist defending her open marriage. "
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" Parisians won't admit that they go to the gym, let alone that they're scared of terrorists. "
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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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" My husband is so upset by President Trump's scapegoating of immigrants and Muslims, he refuses to even visit the United States. "
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" 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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" Just do what you want more often. Don't be so worried about what other people expect. "
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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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" Not many foreigners move to Paris for their dream job. Many do it on a romantic whim. "
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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 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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