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There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not

There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined youd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature. – Ayelet Waldman

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I feed my kids organic food and milk, but Ive also been known to buy the odd Lunchable. My kids are not allowed to watch TV during the week, but on weekends even the 2-year-old veges out to The Simpsons. – Ayelet Waldman

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Im sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but Ive never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them. – Ayelet Waldman

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Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them. – Ayelet Waldman

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a mans nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. – Francis Bacon

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How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! – Emily Dickinson, letter to Mrs. J.S. Cooper, 1880

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