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The culture looms much larger than you do as a parent, and one can hardly rely on the culture to impart the lesson that womanhood is valuable.

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Children are weird. I was going to say 'most children,' but I think this a rare universal law.

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Children's literature - the product of adult guesswork - often fails to account for its audience's slippery grasp on the world.

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Truly smart people and truly smart dressers share one thing in common: They make it look easy.

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With respect to parenting, biological age is not, for men, the concern it is for women.

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Vanity is a sensitive subject for gay men.

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I don't want the staggeringly wealthy Elton John and his family to represent the standard of gay fatherhood any more than straight people want the stunningly beautiful Angelina Jolie and her family to represent the standard of heterosexual parenthood. Stars are outliers; stars are exceptions.

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Is deciding what you like an instinct, a sense that arrives as swiftly as my autoimmune response to cat dander? Or is it the result of reasoned consideration, the way wine tasters swish pinot noir around in their mouths, spit it out, and reach for complex metaphors about chocolate and tobacco?

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Everyone on Twitter - everyone on the Internet - seems so damn certain. Brevity doesn't allow for nuance, and it's a nice complement to confidence.

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I am not anti-Internet, and I don't think smart phones are a social ill.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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