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Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.

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My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family: my husband and daughter, but also my mother, my three sisters, and their families.

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Rage has such focus. It can't go on forever, but it's invigorating.

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Neurobiological research has shown that in people with chronic PTSD, both stress hormone secretion and areas of the brain connected to memory function, such as the hippocampus, appear to be affected, although exactly how and why remains controversial.

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The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams.

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Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent reading, the feel and smell of the old blanket or toy, the nightlight glowing in a corner.

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Children are not in a position to assess risk and safety; it must be done for them, and it must be done carefully.

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Every time the DSM prepares for a new edition, there are countless groups lobbying to get their particular mental illness recognized by the diagnostic manual. Surely, this is a social and cultural phenomenon.

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Having children is one of the most passionate and involving bits of business in human life.

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American mass media culture, with its celebrities, shopping hysteria, sound bites, formulaic plots, received ideas, and nauseating repetitions, depresses me.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: February 19th, 1955

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