Meghan Daum Quotes
When I made my final reckoning with the decision not to have kids, I also decided that I would use at least some of my extra time to better the lives of kids who are already here.
Quotes to Explore
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horror and insist there's something wrong with those of us who do.
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.
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We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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I guess the headline is that you mustn't tough it out assuming it's 'normal' to feel incredible pain when you're preggo or post-partum, or be afraid to try a new specialist or a new kind of specialist if you have pain that isn't getting any better.
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The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
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I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.
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My daughter is an angel on earth, so when I see her it all goes away. I see her and - phew! - all that dark goes away pretty much.
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By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.
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I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand yourself and write one specific kind of book, but to write the kind of books you love to read.
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When I made my final reckoning with the decision not to have kids, I also decided that I would use at least some of my extra time to better the lives of kids who are already here.
