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I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.

Elizabeth Berg

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Elizabeth Berg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: December 2
Author
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Nurse
St Paul
Minnesota
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Women
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There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.
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I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay. I've heard that when elephants are attacked they often run, not away, but toward each other. Perhaps it is because they are a matriarchal society.
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I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am still listening. So you can still talk to me.
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It's amazing how smart the body is. Though maybe we could do without loving. I think it's overrated, and I think it's too hard. You should only love your children that is necessary, because otherwise you might kill them. But to love a man? It's overrated, and it's too hard and I will never, ever do it again.
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I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.
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