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“People feel their membership reflects well on them because it shows they look at the world in a slightly different way from others,”

Kai Elmer Sotto • Get Together: How to build a community with your people

The death of the public intellectual

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This will always be your struggle whether you are twenty-one or fifty-one. I know this from experience. When I quit the New York Times to be a full-time mother, the voices of the world said that I was nuts. When I quit it again to be a full-time novelist, they said I was nuts again. But I am not nuts. I am happy. I am successful on my own terms. Be... See more

Anna Quindlen • 1999 Mount Holyoke Commencement Speech

Remnick does not dispute her account. “I think I would be happy if Judith Thurman wanted to write next about the National Football League,” he explained to me in an email. “The point is, I love reading her on whatever moves her, and she is a woman of parts, of wide-ranging interests and sensibility, a deep reader of literature, someone with a keen ... See more

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When I think of you, I think of community. You’re so devoted to uplifting the voices of others. Can you talk about this impulse in yourself?

What I'm devoted to is the idea that a brain is really the result of its connections to other brains. A life is really the result of its connection to other lives. So we’re the sum of our connections. Those co... See more

Jane Ratcliffe • Rally a Posse: A Conversation With Austin Kleon

she was seeking confidence and stability in her own sense of taste.

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

I was widely respected and liked. I could float among the groups with ease, could stick up for anyone at will (and usually did). But I never belonged to anything in particular, and that is true of all floaters. Also, those girls that do stick by their principles and behave admirably during junior high school are respected, but generally shunned. I

Rosalind Wiseman • Queen Bees and Wannabes, 3rd Edition: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boys, and the New Realities of Girl World

Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise

Ruth Reichl

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Cover of Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise

provide? He now viewed a successful relationship as one in which both people had recognized the best of what the other person had to offer and had chosen to value it as well.