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  1. Curtis Sittenfeld _ You Think It, I'll Say It

    I am filled with gratitude at the astonishing fact of being married to someone I enjoy talking to, someone with whom I can't imagine ever running out of things to say.
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  2. Curtis Sittenfeld _ You Think It, I'll Say It

    Other people were so unsuccessful at fending off love! Members of Congress who had affairs with their aides, or students who I'd known in college, girls who as freshmen declared themselves lesbians, then graduated with boyfriends- to give in to such love represents, for them, a capitulation or a betrayal, yet apparently the pull was so strong that they couldn't resist. That was what I didn't understand, how people made the leap from not mattering in each others' lives to mattering.
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  3. Curtis Sittenfeld _ You Think It, I'll Say It

    Coordinating the calendars of five men in their forties is like herding cats.
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  4. Curtis Sittenfeld _ You Think It, I'll Say It

    All the more reason for you to go
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  5. Curtis Sittenfeld _ You Think It, I'll Say It

    Did I used to think being pretty was my primary obligation because I was in some way delusional? Or was it that I'd absorbed the messages I was meant to absorb with the same diligence with which I studied? As the mother of a daughter, I hope she won't judge herself as harshly as I judged myself, but her personality is so unlike mine - she is boisterous and outspoken - that I'm not inordinately concerned.
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  6. Curtis Sittenfeld _ You Think It, I'll Say It

    I have no idea, of course, that of all the feelings of my youth that would pass, it was this one, of an abundance of time so great as to routinely be unfillable, that would vanish with the least ceremony.
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  7. Curtis Sittenfeld _ You Think It, I'll Say It

    Because honestly, to this day, I don't really know what made him interested in me. It's not that I hate myself, at least not most of the time - it's just that it wouldn't have been difficult for Jason to find a woman who was prettier, or more of a fighter for the underdog, or both. The one time I asked him about it, and I tried to ask as casually, as unpathetically, as possible, given that it's an inherently pathetic question, he said, "Because you had your act together." I think he was referring less to my career than to my not being anorexic or flat-out insane, in contrast to his previous girlfriends; one of them had literally weighed all her meals on a postage scale.
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  8. Curtis Sittenfeld _ You Think It, I'll Say It

    Plus, it made me nervous, because was this the time in my own life before I found someone to love and had a family and looked back longingly on my youthful freedom? Or was it the beginning of what my life would be like forever?"
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  9. Curtis Sittenfeld _ You Think It, I'll Say It

    I am filled with gratitude at the astonishing fact of being married to someone I enjoy talking to, someone with whom I can't imagine running out of things to say.
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  10. Curtis Sittenfeld _ You Think It, I'll Say It

    Part of getting what you want is asking for it.
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  11. Curtis Sittenfeld _ You Think It, I'll Say It

    In general, I have no desire to ever have another conversation about Hillary Clinton, to debate the role her gender played. I'm not sure I want to have any conversation about sexism. If someone doesn't see that gender played a huge role, why would I waste my time trying to convince them?
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  12. Curtis Sittenfeld _ You Think It, I'll Say It

    It's not that you're wrong. But when you say stuff like this, it makes life a lot less enjoyable.
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