Pamela Druckerman Quotes
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The French don't think everyone should have the same bank balance, but they're offended by extremes of inequality.
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When my mother in Florida mentions that she's off to play golf, I think: Golf? In the age of Trump?
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French children seem to be able to play by themselves in a way.
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When you're further along in your career, you probably have more money and more means; you have to stop yourself from giving your child too much. Whereas, if you're in twenties, you might just get by.
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Discrimination was a problem before terrorism. Now, the bad deeds of a few people have made life worse for millions.
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Your child probably won't get into the Ivy League or win a sports scholarship. At age 24, he might be back in his childhood bedroom, in debt, after a mediocre college career. Raise him so that, if that happens, it will still have been worth it.
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It's refreshing to have some time off from wondering whether I look fat.
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I've never gotten a good idea while checking Twitter or shopping.
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I'm a third-generation Miamian. I'm fond of it. I'm an expatriate, so it's the only American city I can still legitimately claim.
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Childhood and adolescence are nothing but milestones: You grow taller, advance to new grades, and get your period, your driver's license, and your diploma. Then, in your 20s and 30s, you romance potential partners, find jobs, and learn to support yourself.
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I think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to your life.
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One of the great joys of a creative life is that your observations and loose moments aren't lost forever; they live in your work.
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I had applied to become French - or, rather, Franco-American, as I'm now a dual citizen - partly because I could: I'd lived and paid taxes here for long enough.
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A large part of the creative process is tolerating the gap between the glorious image you had in your mind and the sad thing you've just made.
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We Anglophones have reasons for adopting strange diets. Increasingly, we live alone. We have an unprecedented choice of foods, and we're not sure what's in them or whether they're good for us. And we expect to customize practically everything: parenting, news, medicines, even our own faces.
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In your 40s, you kind of know how things are likely to go, and you're better at saying, 'You know what? That just doesn't suit me...' I remember thinking in my 30s, 'I should go to Burning Man. I could be a Burning Man person.' And in my 40s, I'm like, 'You know what? I'm never going to go to Burning Man.'
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Having lived in America and France, I've been on both sides of the picky-eating divide.
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What you can say, what French parents say to their kids is, 'You don't have to eat everything, honey, you just have to taste it.' And it's that tasting little by little by little that gets kids more familiar with the food and more comfortable with it and more likely to eat it the next time.
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Just do what you want more often. Don't be so worried about what other people expect.
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Certain woman will be jealous of how skinny you are, no matter what's causing it.
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I'm always hoping no one is following me around with a camera.
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Where Americans might coo over a child's most inane remark to boost his confidence, middle-class French parents teach their kids to be concise and amusing, to keep everyone listening.
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Every time I pass a cafe, I imagine it being stormed by men with Kalashnikovs.
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Even for natives, French satire is rarely laugh-out-loud funny. Its unspoken punch line is typically that things have gone irrevocably wrong, and the government is to blame.