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More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms

More than any other setting – more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel – Ill put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue. – Joyce Maynard

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Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love. – Joyce Maynard

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I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughters age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves. – Joyce Maynard

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At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood. – Joyce Maynard

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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. Its too controversial. – Erma Bombeck

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For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. – Sidney Altman

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I text a lot people, because its how I stay connected with all my family and friends when Im on set and traveling. – Ashley Tisdale

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Govern a family as you would cook a small fish — very gently. – Chinese Proverb

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Sich krank essen, trinken, sitzen: to become sick by eating, drinking, sitting too much. – A Complete Practical Grammar of the German Language (c.1805–1828) by Charl

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I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am. – Steve Yzerman

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