Emma McLaughlin Quotes

American - Novelist | February 7, 1974 -

Valentine's Day: Rubbing singles' noses in their lack of a mate and the noses of couples in their lack of time.

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As a rule, I try to steer clear of opinions pertaining to your parenting. I assume you're doing the best you can, and God bless.

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GodBestParentingDoingYouTry

If I could give a shout-out to anything in the childhood world, I have to say 'Daniel Tiger.' I want to write a love letter to everyone on that staff. It is so perfectly, thoughtfully, lovingly done. And as a parent, it is the one thing out of everything that we dip in to that really helps.

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LoveChildhoodWorldParentTiger

Cameron Crowe can write dialogue and shoot it with warmth and humor like nobody else.

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Between finishing emails, loading the fridge, unloading the dishwasher, getting our son to eat his chicken nuggets and my dog to swallow her pill, it takes approximately 32 days for my husband and I to complete a discussion and 46 to wrap up a fight.

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A Hallmark card with paragraphs about my beauty written by a stranger is vaguely depressing.

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Studios will tell you that they can't turn a profit on female-driven entertainment. Which is like the Gap saying no one is buying clothes anymore. No. No one is buying your clothes.

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SayingClothesYouProfitWillTurn

We 'chicks' have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Matthew McConaughey or Seth Rogan.

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RomanticPopcornGotJustOurThen

My writing partner, Nicki, and I became obsessed with a monologist who performs unscripted shows equipped with nothing more than scribbled bullet points and a glass of water. We wrote him a fan letter and found ourselves sharing lunch and eventually a friendship.

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The more Mommy blogs going nuclear over playground etiquette I read and birthday parties of glazed adults munching cupcakes like demoralized zombies I attend, I realize this is what my friends who conceived before me meant by, 'You just won't care.'

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I think something that really shocked me as a nanny were parents who sort of assumed the worst from the get-go. People who didn't accept the benefit of the doubt.

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I think just because you're a mom, it doesn't negate - if anything, you're probably more enhanced - that you're a woman trying to find your place in the world.

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