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“If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it.”

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Anne Lamott

Anne Lamott is an American novelist born on April 10, 1954. Her works are known for their humor, directness, and profound emotional depth, primarily exploring themes of family, faith, and self-discovery. more

“Traditionally in American society, men have been trained for both competition and teamwork through sports, while women have been reared to merge their welfare with that of the family, with fewer opportunities for either independence or other team identifications, and fewer challenges to direct competition. In effect, women have been circumscribed within that unit where the benefit of one is most easily believed to be the benefit of all.”

Men Has Beens Opportunity Sports Women Challenges Team Effects Benefits Direct Independence Competition Welfare Teamwork Fewer Units Identification American Society

Author:Mary Catherine Bateson

“Orthodox Judaism is a thicket of detailed injunctions, Biblical commandments elaborated during centuries of prohibited proselytizing, functioning to limit interaction with outsiders. At the opposite extreme, Islam, still the most rapidly expanding of faiths, demands little immediate knowledge from those who would convert. The convert is permitted to enter and then to learn by participation, although there are plenty of detailed regulations and abstruse theological ideas to be pursued later, and the regulations do effectively separate believers from nonbelievers.”

“The caretaking has to be done. "Somebody's got to be the mommy." Individually, we underestimate this need, and as a society we make inadequate provision for it. Women take up the slack, making the need invisible as we step in to fill it.”

Needs Done Steps Invisible Underestimate Provision Inadequate Caretaking

Book:Composing a Life

Source: Composing a Life

“...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.”

Trying My Own Fit Elements Reflection Setting Settings Desperate Improvisation My Own Life Disgruntled

Book:Composing a Life

Source: Composing a Life

“Nutrition . . . has been kicked around like a puppy that cannot take care of itself. Food faddists and crackpots have kicked it pretty cruelly . . .”

Has Beens Care Take Care Nutrition Puppy Crackpots

Book:Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt

Source: Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt

“If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth not health.”

Ifs Country America Nations Wealth Produce Myth Propaganda Feds

Author:Adelle Davis

“It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.”

Ifs Clear Blame Majority Israel France Britain Iran Resolution Middle East Crystals Earthquakes Veto

Author:Amos Oz

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