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It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.
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The biggest thing I remember is that there was just no transition. You hit the ground diapering.
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I grew up down in the hills of Virginia. I can be in Kentucky in 20 minutes, Tennessee in 20 minutes or in the state of West Virginia in 20 minutes. And it's down in the Appalachian Mountains, down there. And it's sort of a poorer country. Most of the livelihood is coal mining and logging, working in the woods and things like that. Most people has a hard life down that way.
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Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.
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Food is a great metaphor for the consolidation of corporate power in the hands of very few, who are mostly interested in their own profits and not the wellbeing of the animals they're slaughtering, or the land and the water they're using or abusing, or the workforce they're exploiting or even the people eating it.
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Let's say that, in reality, I'm basically very shy when it comes to men.
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Celebrities say the darnedest things.
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I feel like life is so special and so great, every year I feel like I learn more, and I grow, and I think it's exciting to grow up.
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Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
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The problem with breaking up with someone, if you are a little unsure — and so often, people are unsure — is that breaking up involves persuasion. You have to persuade your ex that it is better this way for everyone. And this is difficult if you have not entirely persuaded yourself. It is especially tricky to do this if you are also naked, and making two cups of coffee.
