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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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Earnestness makes British people gag.

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I always knew the French had a penchant for criticism and abstract thought. Usually, that just meant they complained a lot.

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I've gotten used to being a foreigner.

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French schools follow a national curriculum that includes arduous surveys of French philosophy and literature. Frenchmen then spend the rest of their lives quoting Proust to one another, with hardly anyone else catching the references.

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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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Babies aren't savages. Toddlers understand language long before they can talk.

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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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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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When I left for college, I put Miami behind me and tried to have a life of the mind. I got a graduate degree. I traveled. I even married a fellow writer, whose only real estate was a dingy one-bedroom apartment in Paris, where we lived.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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