“Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.”
“Prejudices are comforting: everyone should make sure to cultivate at least three.”
“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
“This goes along with another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
“I'm so lucky to have a family, adopted or not! I'm so lucky to be alive!" Judy Ellis Taylor tells her three school-age girls.... They roll their eyes.”
“Those who lament the dissolution of the American family-kids with no way to get to Girl Scouts, aging parents put into nursing homes-should remember what it was that kept the American family together: women's blood.”