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I'm a square. I always wanted the standard-issue American dream: beautiful home, loving husband, couple of kids. I met another square, and we got married; a year later, we had a baby; three years later, had another.
Rumaan Alam
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We have all come from a woman in some fashion.
WomanFashionComeSome
For a long time, I thought that I was an enlightened parent by virtue of being an enlightened person. What a fool.
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The culture looms much larger than you do as a parent, and one can hardly rely on the culture to impart the lesson that womanhood is valuable.
CultureParentYouLessonValuable
Children are weird. I was going to say 'most children,' but I think this a rare universal law.
ChildrenLawThinkWeirdSayRare
Children's literature - the product of adult guesswork - often fails to account for its audience's slippery grasp on the world.
ChildrenWorldLiteratureProduct
With respect to parenting, biological age is not, for men, the concern it is for women.
WomenAgeRespectParentingMen
Vanity is a sensitive subject for gay men.
MenVanityGaySensitiveSubject
Checking your phone during dinner is no less rude than reading 'People' during dinner, which I once saw a woman do at Blue Ribbon Brooklyn as she dined with her husband/boyfriend/whatever.
WomanBluePeopleDinnerReading
I reject the notion that one should feel guilty about what you don't know.
FeelYouGuiltyKnowShouldNotion
I work when I work, and that is often dictated by the things I cannot control.
WorkControlThingsCannotOften
Nothing is ever ideal. You have to work all the same.
WorkYouNothingSameIdealEver
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