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I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we wouldn't have millions of successful adoptions to consider. I do think that it's harder to love a child when you come into that child's life after the unrequited passion of infancy and early childhood has passed.

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The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.

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Here are my Mommy Messages: Wear a condom and test your Molly.

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I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic depression. The information wa…

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One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and fall…

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If you focus all of your emotional passion on your children and you neglect the relationship that brought that family into existence... eventually, t…

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There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had…

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I've only ever been interested in drugs as therapeutic tools.

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I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your opportunities should not be constrained by your gende…

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The thing I believe in most in the world is my own fallibility, so I am willing to believe that I may be wrong too.

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