American - Journalist | June 25, 1970 -
I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin.
Ariel Gore
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When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.
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Looking for the perfect day is not going to make us happy, because that day isn't going to come.
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They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.
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I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.
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In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.
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The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?'
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Some caregivers want to reciprocate the care they themselves received as children.
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I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.
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When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.
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I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.
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I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.
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