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Quote by Joyce Maynard
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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Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful. – Joyce Maynard

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Experience
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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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Home
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The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what Ive written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval. – Joyce Maynard

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Fear
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Family
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When I do get the chance I just love to hang around at home with friends and family. – Delta Goodrem

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Family

I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, Im the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so Im not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So Im just relaxing and enjoying it. – Betty White

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Family

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees. – Henry Louis Gates

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Family

The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family – my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid – to live in the apartment building. – Tom Morello

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Family

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Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God. – Martin Luther

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God

A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn? – Hugh Mackay

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Easter

Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness. – Robert Casper Lintner

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If you get too far in front of your troops, you start looking like the enemy. – Anon.

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Leadership