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Why are we, the most medicalized of societies, a culture in pain?
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The family on vacation doesn't truly travel — it explores itself.
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Well, delusions are a wonderful thing, and they keep you company, too.
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Like an animal, cancer sleeps, prowls, hibernates, turns surly or placid.
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Now I was someone who ate like a wolf, napped like a cat, and dreamed like a madwoman.
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The first axiom of the family vacation is that someone, possibly everyone, will get sick.
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First, women couldn't vote. Then they couldn't work. Now they can't sit down and read the paper.
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Motherhood is like Albania—you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there.
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Sex creates optimism. It seems to insinuate life in the future, even when procreation is not the point.
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This becomes our last parental chore — to dwindle, to clam up, to say 'Well, you may be right' and step aside.
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At a certain point, the soul exits from a cherished photograph, because we have come to the end of our loving projection into that moment.
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Hubris loves families. Complacency will be punished. The Old Testament lives on in viruses that take root the day you book a non-refundable flight.
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Housework hassles go on, are never resolved, and will probably extend into the afterlife ('Why am I the one who takes the clouds to the dry cleaners?').
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This is a truism of child-raising, of course — whatever you give special time and attention to cooking, your children will despise and reject, with annoying gagging sounds.
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Hasn't anyone thought to look at outcomes as a logical way to figure out what really works? Not until recently. That tells you how far out of the picture the patient has been.
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Home alone with a wakeful newborn, I could shower so quickly that the mirror didn't fog and the backs of my knees stayed dry. The one-minute hair conditioner was too slow for me.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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