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Catherine Newman Quote: “I am here for all of it – the young people and their bodies. I wish I’d dressed like that when I was their age instead of in the burlap sack dresses we favored for their astonishing shapelessness. “What’s in there?” people surely wondered. A youthful human torso and legs? A truckload of Idaho potatoes? There was no telling.”

51. “I am here for all of it – the young people and their bodies. I wish I’d dressed like that when I was their age instead of in the burlap sack dresses we favored for their astonishing shapelessness. “What’s in there?” people surely wondered. A youthful human torso and legs? A truckload of Idaho potatoes? There was no telling.”

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Catherine Newman Quote: “Life is messy. I certainly don’t expect tidiness from yours or anybody else’s.”

52. “Life is messy. I certainly don’t expect tidiness from yours or anybody else’s.”

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Catherine Newman Quote: “I was pregnant. I was sick and thirsty. I was gutted with love for these sparkling children. Bodies of my body. Inside and out – brain, heart, uterus; mouth, skin, breasts – not a single part of me was my own.”

53. “I was pregnant. I was sick and thirsty. I was gutted with love for these sparkling children. Bodies of my body. Inside and out – brain, heart, uterus; mouth, skin, breasts – not a single part of me was my own.”

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Catherine Newman Quote: “Willa once shared her theory that finding a four-leaf clover was a symptom of luck, not a cause. “It just means you have the kind of life where there are growing things and you have time to look at them,” she said. I think she was actually making a point about class privilege? But I like to imagine that luck is everywhere, even before you find it.”

54. “Willa once shared her theory that finding a four-leaf clover was a symptom of luck, not a cause. “It just means you have the kind of life where there are growing things and you have time to look at them,” she said. I think she was actually making a point about class privilege? But I like to imagine that luck is everywhere, even before you find it.”

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Catherine Newman Quote: “Grief is like the sound of the exhaust fan over the stove – a constant hum that recedes a little to the background over time, though you never get to turn it off.”

55. “Grief is like the sound of the exhaust fan over the stove – a constant hum that recedes a little to the background over time, though you never get to turn it off.”

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Catherine Newman Quote: “The older I get, it seems, the less I want to talk to anybody about their feelings or my own. Not in the usual way, at least. The responsible way. I want to behave badly and be immediately forgiven. Or maybe it’s not that I want that – it’s just what I do.”

56. “The older I get, it seems, the less I want to talk to anybody about their feelings or my own. Not in the usual way, at least. The responsible way. I want to behave badly and be immediately forgiven. Or maybe it’s not that I want that – it’s just what I do.”

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Catherine Newman Quote: “They lost all of their teeth under this roof! They lost all of their baby fat! They turned skinny and pimply and furious, and then sleek and kind and hilarious.”

57. “They lost all of their teeth under this roof! They lost all of their baby fat! They turned skinny and pimply and furious, and then sleek and kind and hilarious.”

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Catherine Newman Quote: “Despair laced through with so much incredible beauty. We just keep showing up for each other. Even through the mystery of other people’s grief. What else is there?”

58. “Despair laced through with so much incredible beauty. We just keep showing up for each other. Even through the mystery of other people’s grief. What else is there?”

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Catherine Newman Quote: “So you might as well love as much as you can. And as recklessly. Like it’s your last resort, because it is.”

59. “So you might as well love as much as you can. And as recklessly. Like it’s your last resort, because it is.”

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Catherine Newman Quote: “So much of privileged adulthood seems to take place here, in the space between the soaring highs and the killing disasters. It’s just plain life, beautiful in its familiar subtlety, its decency and dailiness.”

60. “So much of privileged adulthood seems to take place here, in the space between the soaring highs and the killing disasters. It’s just plain life, beautiful in its familiar subtlety, its decency and dailiness.”

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Catherine Newman Quote: “It’s so tempting to waste the last of the time we have left in a state of preemptive loss that I have to actively stop myself from the ruing and keening.”

61. “It’s so tempting to waste the last of the time we have left in a state of preemptive loss that I have to actively stop myself from the ruing and keening.”

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Catherine Newman Quote: “In the end there’s more beauty in the imperfection.”

62. “In the end there’s more beauty in the imperfection.”

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Catherine Newman Quote: “Life is a seesaw, and I am standing dead center, still and balanced: living kids on one side, living parents on the other. Nicky here with me at the fulcrum. Don’t move a muscle, I think. But I will, of course. You have to.”

63. “Life is a seesaw, and I am standing dead center, still and balanced: living kids on one side, living parents on the other. Nicky here with me at the fulcrum. Don’t move a muscle, I think. But I will, of course. You have to.”

— Catherine Newman

Catherine Newman Quote: “Let’s not jump right to the blaming part. Let’s linger a while in the relief and gratitude part.”

64. “Let’s not jump right to the blaming part. Let’s linger a while in the relief and gratitude part.”

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Catherine Newman Quote: “If menopause were an actual substance, it would be spraying from my eyeballs, searing the word ugh.”

65. “If menopause were an actual substance, it would be spraying from my eyeballs, searing the word ugh.”

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Catherine Newman Quote: “People who insist that you should be grateful instead of complaining? They maybe don’t understand how much gratitude one might feel about the opportunity to complain.”

66. “People who insist that you should be grateful instead of complaining? They maybe don’t understand how much gratitude one might feel about the opportunity to complain.”

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Catherine Newman Quote: “They chafe against the very fact of you, the parents – against the judgment seeping out of you even while you’re busy impressing yourself with your own restraint.”

67. “They chafe against the very fact of you, the parents – against the judgment seeping out of you even while you’re busy impressing yourself with your own restraint.”

— Catherine Newman

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