Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

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I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of...

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of...

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and...

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and...

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on...

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on...

The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the...

The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the...

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition...

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition...

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the...

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the...

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always...

There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always...

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman...

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman...

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented...

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented...

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two...

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two...

The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you...

The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you...

A finished person is a boring person.

A finished person is a boring person.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect...

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect...

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of...

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of...

In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another...

In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another...

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind...

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind...

If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you...

If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you...

Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were...

Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were...