It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama.
ADORA SVITAKAs children, we have a tenuous idea of love.
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My family joke that I’m really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.
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There are lots of different interpretations of the word ‘prodigy.’
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Let’s abolish the term ‘childish’ because adults normally cause the largest problems.
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But I think it’s very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.
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Not just for me, but for everyone.
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It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.
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But it doesn’t change the fact that we are chained to the beast. Voluntarily, of course.
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If we all understood we can learn from both older and younger people, then we’d have a better world.
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I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book, ‘Flying Fingers,’ debuted.
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Young people are often asked, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives.
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Companies would probably do better with CEOs who didn’t blow their own horn.
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There’s no committee that says, ‘This is the type of person who can change the world – and you can’t.
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So in that respect I could be called one, although I don’t think I’ll go off the rails.
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To show that you truly care, you listen.
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Success on the front of women’s rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances.
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