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One of the sad realities of being a parent is that the same stuff you know is exciting, educational, and enriching in your child'slife is often messy, smelly and exhausting to deal with.
Joyce Maynard
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Joyce Maynard
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: November 5
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Daphne Joyce Maynard
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Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.
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Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.
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I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot.
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[On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in the door.
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Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.
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I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.
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To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.
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The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.
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More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.
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Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back.
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Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.
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You lay your hand against his skin and just rib his back. Blow into his ear. Press that baby up against your own skin and walk outside with him, where the night air will sourround him, and moonlight fall on his face. Whistle, maybe. Dance. Hum. Pray. (how to calm a crying baby)
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Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.
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I continued to protect him with my silence.
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I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells me that twenty years from now not one of them will sit on some therapist's couch complaining because their mother didn't spend enough time vacuuming up glitter.
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If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.
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