You can weaponize nice. . . Being nice can make you be a little underestimated. - Erin McKean

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I've got Ph. D. just because I enjoyed reading and writing and didn't know what else to do. It was something fun to do. Like it seems self-evident that I'm a musician now, but it's a really hard path. It's almost impossible.

Erin McKean

You can weaponize nice. . . Being nice can make you be a little underestimated.

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You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend
spouse
partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’.

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People say to me, ‘How do I know if a word is real?’ You know, anybody who’s read a children’s book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it. That makes it real.

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Aging has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

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Lexicographers are language reporters.

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I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feeling of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.

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John Kennedy Toole

I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality.

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Leo Tolstoy

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

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