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God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.
Jeannette Walls
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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
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Everything in life is gray, you know.
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In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you can and as true to yourself as possible. You have to be honest and fair and vulnerable and foolish and brave, and not care what anyone thinks of it.
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Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.
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But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.
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Since Mom wasn't exactly the most useful person in the world, one lesson I learned at an early age was how to get things done, and this was a source of both amazement and concern for Mom, who considered my behavior unladylike but also counted on me. I never knew a girl to have such gumption, she'd say. But I'm not too sure it's a good thing.
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Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.
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She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe.
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Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito
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If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't
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Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.
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I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them the really lucky ones discover what it is.
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What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.
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Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.
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No one expected you to amount to much, she told me. Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.
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You West Virginia girls are one tough breed, he said. You got that right, I told him.
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Confidence doesn't come from thinking you're perfect or flawless. That's arrogance. Confidence comes from appreciating the beauty of your texture.
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One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else's voice.
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It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.
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I hadn’t been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn’t really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.
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