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Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.

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Men want children later, but women can't rely on being able to. So I'm all for scientific advances and the help they can give people.

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I would go out with people who really didn't like me very much and then wonder why we weren't getting married!

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I've been accused of riding roughshod over others' emotions, and I admit, when I feel a friend is being over-indulgent, my patience is in short supply.

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Normally, the thin-skinned have an endless array of excuses for why their workaday interactions are so much harder to bear for them than for the rest of us. In the eyes of the self-suffering, they are being victimised, used and always abused, when they're actually experiencing exactly the same body blows as the rest of us.

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Often, those who bruise easily spend too much time thinking about themselves. I'd go so far as to say that oversensitivity is a privilege of the underoccupied. The majority of people don't have the time to lavish care on emotional wounds - they're too busy getting on with living.

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There are more than enough people with serious mental issues who really do need professional help without all the other Toms, Dicks and Harriets rushing to the therapist's couch.

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Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of positive attributes, a meeting of mind, body and soul that is all the more powerful as it is not weighed down with neediness and unreasonable expectation.

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What an unappealing responsibility that is to lumber any prospective lover with: the need to be a saviour, not simply an equal partner.

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Far too many girls' and women's romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their own worth and attributes rather than a confirmation of them.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Journalist

Born: November 12th, 1962

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