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My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, b

My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers – this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawfords wire hangers look like pool noodles. – Sloane Crosley

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Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, its usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is fairy lights, which we boringly refer to as Christmas lights. – Sloane Crosley

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Christmas
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Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctors appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops. – Sloane Crosley

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Birthday
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Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want – and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack. – Sloane Crosley

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Freedom
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I have three daughters, so I cant be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids – especially daughters – they know how to work you. Theyre a lot smarter than we are, thats for sure. But Ill be more tough on their boyfriends. – Tim McGraw

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For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting experts that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer. – Bob Barr

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If youre asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach. – Bruce Jenner

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No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and Im not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal. – Bill Cosby

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Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will. – Terry Eagleton

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We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, were not there yet. – Harry Connick, Jr.

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