I remember, when I was a kid, ...

I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.
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 Susan Orlean

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I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.
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In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.
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I've always been afraid of video games - not afraid that I wouldn't like them, but that I would like them too much, and that after mere seconds in front of any particularly bright and absorbing game, I would abandon all ambition, turn into a mouth-breathing zombie, and develop a wide, sofa-shaped rear end.
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Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.
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I think part of a hero construct is overcoming loss, or being abandoned, or having to make your own way in the world.
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