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We're stronger than we realize.

Jeannette Walls

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
Journalist
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Phoenix
Arizona
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Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you are young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul.
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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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Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.
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Mom also hinted a couple of times that it was good I was going to college, since with one failed marriage behind me, I 'd have trouble landing a good husband and would need something to fall back on. A package that's been opened once doesn't have the same appeal.
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When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.
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I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.
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I always wanted to be a serious journalist.
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Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour, she'd ask us, when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?
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[Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. 'Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten,' Dad said, ' you'll still have your stars.
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Living there [Horse Mesa] was like living in a natural cathedral. Waking up every morning, you walked outside and looked down at the blue lake, then up at the sandstone cliffs--those awe-inspiring layers of red and yellow rock shaped over the millennia, with dozens of black-streaked crevices that temporarily became waterfalls after rainstorms.
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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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Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.
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Everything in life is gray, you know.
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I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.
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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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Don't be afraid of your dark places. ... If you can shine a light on them, you'll find treasure there.
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That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.
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Interesting people always have a past.
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You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim
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