Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings … - Susan Cheever

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Islam has values, following the Koran and the example of Mohammed and they form people very profoundly and for some Muslims it creates a vision of a very different society and a hope it will be established.

Susan Cheever

Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.

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The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be reinvented, and reinvented at a time when both husband and wife are under unprecedented stress and the wife is exhausted, physically drained, and emotionally in shock. A man's conflict between wanting his child to have a mother and wanting to have the mother to himself is potentially intolerable.

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When Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, what he meant was that there are no happy families.

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A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.

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You mustn’t be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

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Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

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