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Is it possible that my sons-in-law will do toilets? If we raise boys to know that diapers need to be changed and refrigerators need to be cleaned, there's hope for the next generation.

Anne Roiphe

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Anne Roiphe
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: December 25
Essayist
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New York City
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God is a God of Lovingkindness.
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Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.
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Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.
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