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Can't is for pussies.
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A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl
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Girl
Dad
Father
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Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her?
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Fairy
Godmother
Needs
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The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.
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Unrequited Love
Kind
Lasts
Love Is
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A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.
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Boys
Mother
Stars
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Men worry about childcare with their wallets, women feel it in their wombs.
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Men
Children
Worry
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I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.
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Men
Believe
Understood
Want
Women Men Believe
Minute
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Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms will find an instant tonic.
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Suffering
Symptoms
Withdrawal
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Sometimes it's a relief just to focus on putting one foot in front of the other.
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Relief
Foot
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The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question.
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Answers
Knows
Musician
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The times you don't make it are the ones children remember, not the times you do.
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Children
Remember
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I'm not a writer just to be a writer. I want to say something that really needs expressing.
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Something Want Say
Expressing
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It is customary for the writer to sneer that Hollywood has traduced their book. Well, I adore my film.
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Adore
Hollywood
Sneer
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I'm interested in the things that might seem slight or amusing but which I feel have a kind of profundity.
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Amusing
Profundity
Slight
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My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.
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Children
Lefties
Mother
Nurture
Contest
Tories
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We carry our younger selves with us our whole lives, and we can measure out of lives by music we've loved or icons we've loved.
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Icons
Measure
Selves
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It's not easy to reach the summit of your career by the age of 24 - and for the years after to be a humiliating scrabble downhill.
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Humiliating
Scrabble
Summit
Downhill
Reach
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Girls slightly younger tended to be Donny Osmond girls or Michael Jackson girls, but for my generation, it tended to be David Cassidy.
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My Generation
David
Jackson
Slightly
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In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.
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Defined
Return
Wells
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The quickest way to stop noticing something may be to buy it, just as the quickest way to stop appreciating a person may be to marry them.
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Appreciate
May
Way
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Going through puberty, that Cape Canaveral of the hormones, young girls are in love with the idea of being in love, trying it out for sighs.
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Being In Love
Hormones
Puberty
Cape
Sighs
Young Girls
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God probably thinks it’s worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us.
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Giving
Laughing
Thinking
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Every so often, you come across a member of the younger generation who makes you think, 'Well, perhaps the future's going to be OK after all.'
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Younger Generation
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If I had written a book saying, 'Ladies, your life is terrible,' I would have sold three copies. It's always better to laugh people into recognition.
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Copies
Recognition
Life Better People
Life Better Always
Ladies
Sold
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For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.
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Men
Arise
Century
Manly
Virtue
According
Centuries
Comprehend
Valued
Measured
Virtues
Needing
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I have an American trainer - a bubbly Californian. I tell her, 'Welsh women don't run. We're congenitally incapable.' But she's got me up to five kilometers.
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Incapable
Welsh
Trainer
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Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.
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Infinite
Loss
Numbers
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Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.
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Balls
Juggling
Laughter
Mother
Double
Drop
Invariably
Mothers
Revealed
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I forget the derivation of Boxing Day, but the feeling of wanting to invite your loved ones outside one at a time and punch them in the face, does that come into it somewhere?
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Christmas
Smile
Boxing
Faces
Feelings
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My strong sense now is that, as women have become more equal in society, so their depictions onscreen have become lamer and lamer and lamer, to the point that it's an embarrassment.
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Embarrassment
Onscreen
Strong Sense
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The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'
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Baby
Cleaning
Dry
Motherhood
Program
Software
Two
Male
Download
Fully
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When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.
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Kids
Children
Giving
Now And Then
Stew
Burner
Quick
Tendency
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I speak as the journalist who, on the first day back at work for 'The Daily Telegraph' after the birth of my daughter, went to interview Tom Hanks with an epaulette of banana sick on my jacket.
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Birth
Journalist
Telegraph
Banana
Interview
Jacket
Tom
Tom Hanks
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You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever.
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Alternatives
Sleep
Tired
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One thing that did give me pause for thought, when I told my female friends now that I was writing about a 13-year-old girl, without exception they all said, 'I would not go back to being 13 for a million pounds.'
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Exception
Give Me
Me Back Go
Pause
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My husband is old-fashioned and kind, he does the greatest Sinatra impression, and I'd never have written anything if he hadn't read all those bedtime stories and unloaded the dishwasher while I slaved over chapters.
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Bedtime
Chapters
Doe
Husband
Impression
Stories
Dishwasher
Sinatra
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I am a passionate devotee of the Howard Hawks' screwball comedies of the 1930s and the 1940s, where I think that the relations between men and women were at their civilized height in terms of banter and exchange of wit and equality.
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Equality
Civilized
Hawks
Height
Men And Women
Passionate
Wit
Men Women Equality
Men Women Where
Comedies
Exchange
Women Men Equality
Terms
Relations
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People say that time is a great healer. Which people? What are they talking about? I think some feelings you experience in your life are written in indelible ink and the best you can hope for is that they fade a little over the years.
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Talking
Thinking
Years
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When we talk about women's struggle to balance their lives, certain men growl, 'If you can't stand the heat, get back to the kitchen.' Men who have never changed a nappy, mainly, and couldn't pick their child's teacher out in a police line-up.
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Heat
Line-Up
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My mother was a stay-at-home mom until I was about 11, when she got a job - and it was like a light came on inside her. It's not wrong to be passionate about your career. When you love what you do, you bring that stimulation back to your family.
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Jobs
Mom
Mother
Passionate
Stay At Home
Stay At Home Mom
Love Family Mom
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Women run the small country called Home, millions of us do it in our spare time, and no one who doesn't run that small country really knows what it feels like in the dead of night when task lists jitter like tickertape through your seething brain.
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Running
Home
Country
Lists
Millions
Spare Time
Time Women Home
Small Country
Spare
Task
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Children are the proof we've been here . . . they're where we go to when we die. They're the best thing and the most impossible thing, but there's nothing else . . . Life is a riddle and they are the answer. If there's any answer, it has to be them.
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Answers
Children
Impossible Things
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My ideals told me that men and women could both go out to work and be truly equal. My children told me something more complicated, something I really didn't want to hear. Their need for me was like the need for water or light: it had a devastating simplicity to it.
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Men
Children
Equal
Ideals
Light
Men And Women
Simplicity
Work Men Women
Devastating
Work Women Men
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No man would ever use both hands to hold a cup of tea, unless he was one day's march from the South Pole, with one chum dead in the snow, dogs all eaten and six fingers about to drop off. And even then he would look around the empty tent to check, in case anybody thought it was girly.
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Men
Dog
Girly
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When you're young your mother shields you from the world because she thinks you're too young to understand, and when she's old you shield her because she's too old to understand - or to have any more understanding inflicted upon her. The curve of life goes: want to know, know, don't want to know.
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Curves
Mother
Thinking
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Women now influence the majority of consumer purchases. It is women's votes that will secure victory at the next election, hence the altogether delicious spectacle of Messrs Brown and Cameron vying to tell stories about broken nights and childcare as men once boasted of goals scored or pheasants bagged.
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Broken
Cameron
Childcare
Delicious
Election
Majority
Secure
Altogether
Nights
Consumer
Hence
Next Election
Purchases
Spectacle
Votes
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I've struggled with depression, and the signs that I was falling apart - having heart palpitations at 4 A.M. - were there for a long time before I paid attention. Even when my psychiatrist gave me a questionnaire, I found myself trying to circle the answers that made me seem like I wasn't a wreck. I've since learned to listen to my body.
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Depression
Answers
Circle
Falling
Struggled
Signs
Wreck
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My son was about five or six months old, and he was ill, and I was sent to New York to interview three people back to back. I got home, and I saw my baby. He had been very ill, and he was on three kinds of antibiotics. I'd been away for eight days. I looked at him and thought, 'What am I doing? I'm a terrible mother and a terrible journalist.'
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Antibiotics
Ill
Home People New
Interview
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