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Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.

Tori Amos

You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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Feelings Looks Reality
Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.
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Art Chocolate Thinking
My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts – with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist – outside on the church lawn.
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Beer Cob Corn Father
Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.
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Mistress Trying Wife
I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.
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Art Books Hearing Things
At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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Cook Macrobiotic Mother
Tori’s my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.
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Aunt Niece Years
A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
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Music Play Song
After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That’s when you feel the passage of time is occurring.
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Occur Piano Players Singer
There is value in everybody’s gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
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Hard Matter Strange
If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
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Play Song Writing
If you think a child is going to be your accessory… it’s not like a micro pig. It’s not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.
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Children Night Thinking
I’m not like a poker player. I’m not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I’m intending to go. My cards are always on the table.
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Cards Eye Player Table
I think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul.
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Mean Something Soul Thinking
Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
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Crazy Friendship Maybe Understood
I’m really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can’t say I felt that way in my late 20s.
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Feelings Sexy Wake Up

Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.

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