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“That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.”

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Armstrong Williams, born on February 5, 1959, is an American author known for his works on political, economic, and social issues, which have gained wide readership. more

“Gym class was, of course, where the strongest, best-looking kids were made captains and chose us spazzes last. More important, it was where the figures of supposed authority allowed them to do so. Forget the work our parents did molding our minds and values. Everything fell apart as soon as we put on those maroon polyester gym suits.”

Source: Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace

“It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction.”

Ifs Children Hard Helping Kids House Childhood Emotional Lucky Our Children Legacy Remembered Your Children Distinction Lucky You

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.”

Way Has Beens Fiction Roles Issues Expectations Motherhood Nonfiction Consumed Fiction And Nonfiction Societal Expectations

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we wouldn't have millions of successful adoptions to consider. I do think that it's harder to love a child when you come into that child's life after the unrequited passion of infancy and early childhood has passed.”

Ifs Thinking Children Passion Millions Successful Childhood Harder Inevitable Adoption Dna Infancy Unrequited Children Love Early Childhood

Author:Ayelet Waldman

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