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Looking for the perfect day is not going to make us happy, because that day isn't going to come.

I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin.

From Ariel Gore

I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.

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When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.

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In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

From Ariel Gore

The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?'

From Ariel Gore

Some caregivers want to reciprocate the care they themselves received as children.

From Ariel Gore

I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.

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When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

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I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

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