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In your 40s, you kind of know how things are likely to go, and you're better at saying, 'You know what? That just doesn't suit me...' I remember thinking in my 30s, 'I should go to Burning Man. I could be a Burning Man person.' And in my 40s, I'm like, 'You know what? I'm never going to go to Burning Man.'

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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.

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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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The question on my husband's birthday is always, What do you get for the man who has nothing?

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Usually, I'm so self-absorbed that my companion could be bleeding to death, and I might not notice.

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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.

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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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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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I'm not an early adopter. I'll only start wearing new styles of clothing once they're practically out of date, and I won't move into a neighborhood until it's fully saturated with upscale coffee shops.

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Podcasts immersed me in colloquial English and put me back in the American zeitgeist.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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