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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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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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Alaska is what happens when Willy Wonka and the witch from Hansel and Gretel elope, buy a place together upstate, renounce their sweet teeth, and turn into health fanatics. – Sloane Crosley

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Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking even then, the chances of being hit by a public bus at 30,000 feet are remarkably slim. I also have no problem with confined spaces. Or heights. What I am afraid of is speed. – Sloane Crosley

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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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Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they dont want them to become politicians in the process. – John F. Kennedy

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A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when hes in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station. – Bill Cosby

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The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter. – Meryl Streep

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Im not about to talk about whats romantic in my life – I figure if you talk about it once, then thats an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further. So, I just keep my private life to myself. – James Van Der Beek

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A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke – and that the joke is oneself. – Clifton Paul Fadiman

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The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions. – Sandra Day OConnor

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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine. – H. L. Mencken

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