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Sleeping with your child, wearing your child in a sling as opposed to pushing them around in expensive strollers, those are things that matter biologically and sociologically for the structure of a family.
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I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.
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A lot of stuff I wear I've had since high school.
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I've never had a sinus infection or been on antibiotics since cutting out dairy.
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I'm big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works really well for them.
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The most empowering feminist act is for women to be taught about the ways babies bond and then decide what they want to do.
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I'm generally intimidated by adults.
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I get maybe four hours of sleep a night. I'm a little bit crazy.
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Publicly I'm a very modest dresser, by Hollywood's standards.
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You don't have to be an at-home parent to be an attachment parent.
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I'm a pretty quiet person.
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Breast-feeding is the natural, optimal way to feed a child.
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I have a life. My kids don't run my house.
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I don't want to say everything happens for a reason but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.
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The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.
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I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.
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To be honest, it's considered very late to start acting at 11 and a half, for the industry. Most kids are doing it from toddlerhood on.
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I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.
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Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal.
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There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor.
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I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's funny.
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I like bold colors but usually wear black.
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It's wonderful to be appreciated for being quirky, and to see Zooey Deschanel and the quirky, indie film types get mainstream play is amazing for women, because women are much more complicated than what we've see on TV in the past.
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As a kid, I felt really weird.