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Cameron Crowe can write dialogue and shoot it with warmth and humor like nobody else.
Emma Mclaughlin / Novelist
Cameron
Dialogue
Warmth
Shoot
Nobody Else
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A Hallmark card with paragraphs about my beauty written by a stranger is vaguely depressing.
Emma Mclaughlin / Novelist
Depressing
Hallmark
Stranger
Card
Paragraphs
Vaguely
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Valentine's Day: Rubbing singles' noses in their lack of a mate and the noses of couples in their lack of time.
Emma Mclaughlin / Novelist
Valentine
Valentine's Day
Noses
Singles
Couples
Mate
Rubbing
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As a rule, I try to steer clear of opinions pertaining to your parenting. I assume you're doing the best you can, and God bless.
Emma Mclaughlin / Novelist
Parenting
Bless
God Bless
Steer
God Best Your
Assume
Opinions
Pertaining
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I think just because you're a mom, it doesn't negate - if anything, you're probably more enhanced - that you're a woman trying to find your place in the world.
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Enhanced
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I think something that really shocked me as a nanny were parents who sort of assumed the worst from the get-go. People who didn't accept the benefit of the doubt.
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Shocked
Me People Parents
Assumed
Benefit
Me Parents People
Nanny
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We 'chicks' have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Matthew McConaughey or Seth Rogan.
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Chicks
Matthew
Popcorn
Comedies
Protagonist
Romantic Comedies
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Studios will tell you that they can't turn a profit on female-driven entertainment. Which is like the Gap saying no one is buying clothes anymore. No. No one is buying your clothes.
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Buying
Entertainment
Profit
Studios
Gap
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We really set out in all our books to say something. Every one is an effort to bring the reader over and show them our theory as to why what we're talking about needs to be talked about.
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Reader
Theory
Talked
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Read at a time when everything feels intense, seminal, and like you're the first person to discover it, freshman year of college, Carol Gilligan's 'In a Different Voice' made my hair stand on end with awe.
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Awe
Freshman
Freshman Year
Intense
Carol
Discover
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It's funny, we started writing chick-lit when it was just becoming a crowded marketplace, and now the same thing is happening with YA. It really used to just be one shelf at the library - Nancy Drew and Judy Blume.
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Crowded
Marketplace
Nancy
Drew
Judy
Just Be
Same Thing
Shelf
Ya
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Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane Smiley by a dear professor who raised my awareness of what female authors were bringing to the table of contemporary fiction.
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Contemporary
Dear
Genre
Jane
Smiley
Authors
Bringing
Introduced
Professor
Table
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It must be so hard for guys in relationships - to have just one girlfriend completely devoted to taking care of all your whole-grain needs. I can see how at the first opportunity you'd just have to get out there and - sow.
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Opportunity
Girlfriend
Guy
Needs
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The more Mommy blogs going nuclear over playground etiquette I read and birthday parties of glazed adults munching cupcakes like demoralized zombies I attend, I realize this is what my friends who conceived before me meant by, 'You just won't care.'
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Birthday
Blogs
Demoralized
Etiquette
Nuclear
Attend
Conceived
Mommy
Parties
Playground
Zombies
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Between finishing emails, loading the fridge, unloading the dishwasher, getting our son to eat his chicken nuggets and my dog to swallow her pill, it takes approximately 32 days for my husband and I to complete a discussion and 46 to wrap up a fight.
Emma Mclaughlin / Novelist
Discussion
Dog
Finishing
Approximately
Chicken
Dishwasher
Emails
Fridge
Pill
Swallow
Wrap
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My writing partner, Nicki, and I became obsessed with a monologist who performs unscripted shows equipped with nothing more than scribbled bullet points and a glass of water. We wrote him a fan letter and found ourselves sharing lunch and eventually a friendship.
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Friendship
Lunch
Bullet
Equipped
Glass
Letter
Partner
Performs
Sharing
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If I could give a shout-out to anything in the childhood world, I have to say 'Daniel Tiger.' I want to write a love letter to everyone on that staff. It is so perfectly, thoughtfully, lovingly done. And as a parent, it is the one thing out of everything that we dip in to that really helps.
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Dip
If I Could
Parent
Staff
Love Childhood World
Daniel
Letter
Lovingly
Perfectly
The One Thing
Thoughtfully
Tiger
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For a blink of an eye, there was so much media glare. It was unexpected, and I don't think we realized the magnitude of the message we were imparting with 'The Nanny Diaries.' There was also this added challenge that some of the media power players whose publications were doing stories on us perceived us to be sniping at their lifestyles.
Emma Mclaughlin / Novelist
Blink
Diaries
Glare
Magnitude
Unexpected
Added
Imparting
Lifestyles
Nanny
Perceived
Publications
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