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But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.

Barbara Kingsolver

Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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Believe Heart Kids
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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Animal Skills Vegetables
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Enough People Wells
Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Pace Sugar Way
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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Before Human Unnoticed World
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Meaningful Pain Spiritual

But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.

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But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.

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