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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.

Barbara Kingsolver

Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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Basketball Girl Nice
It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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People Terrible Thinking
You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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Kids Sorry Two
…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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Heart Summer Wings
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Fortune How Know Same Wear
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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Political Thinking Writing
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single
There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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Kindness Rocks Thinking
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
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Book Doubt Writing
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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Eye Hands Heart
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Environmental Feelings Ideas

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