"You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim"

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Source : Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

Jeannette Walls

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“When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.”
“The Federal Reserve... is in the position of the chaperone who has ordered the punch bowl removed just when the party was really warming up.”
“If the way of the sage is true, that we are all dreaming our world into being, then it has to apply not only to our private, personal universe but to the world at large.”

Source : FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Oct 04, 2013
“The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies.”
“Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.”
“I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's a culture. It's - I mean, people obsess over this. And people create subcultures that identify - and there are people in the streets who will recognize certain patterns and signifiers.”
“The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet; the second, an imbecile.”

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