What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation. Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved...Freedom is...not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.

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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.

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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

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Because I loved myself, I was loved.

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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.

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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.

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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

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Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

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Home is where your books are.

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