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“While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.”
“Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.”
“Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting.”
“If you're ever in a situation where you're not getting served or you can't get what you need, just cry.”
“We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.”
“To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.”
“Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.”
“I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.”
“I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.”
“When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.”
“If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.”
“The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.”
“A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.”
“I am blessed beyond reason with women friends.”
“I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.”
“I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.”
“I'm vain. My arms are thin, but I'm vain about loose flesh. And so I'm careful that what I wear will show off my best parts, which are my waist and my butt.”
“I lived in France during the '60s. I was there from the early '60s until 1970, so my view of the '60s is more global. It was a time of tremendous transition, not only for America but for the whole world.”
“I don't want to make a cheap analysis, but when you have, like I did, a father incapable of showing emotion, who spends his life telling you that no one will love you if you aren't perfect, it leaves scars.”
“One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.”