I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
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When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women? In some ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure.
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I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
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Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it.
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Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.
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