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Glynnis MacNicol Quote: “Nora Ephron once wrote that she’d ceased being scared of flying when her husband pointed out it was narcissistic to think her plane was the one that was going to go down.”

1. “Nora Ephron once wrote that she’d ceased being scared of flying when her husband pointed out it was narcissistic to think her plane was the one that was going to go down.”

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Glynnis MacNicol Quote: “We’re the first generation that can make enough of our own money to live the way we want. I feel like we have a responsibility to figure out what this means.”

2. “We’re the first generation that can make enough of our own money to live the way we want. I feel like we have a responsibility to figure out what this means.”

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Glynnis MacNicol Quote: “I’ve realized that you can never be your best self without extra bandwidth to think clearly, give to others, and appreciate sunrises and sunsets.”

3. “I’ve realized that you can never be your best self without extra bandwidth to think clearly, give to others, and appreciate sunrises and sunsets.”

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Glynnis MacNicol Quote: “Men, it occurred to me, perhaps for the first time in my life, did not need to be a goal.”

4. “Men, it occurred to me, perhaps for the first time in my life, did not need to be a goal.”

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Glynnis MacNicol Quote: “Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business, and in life.”

5. “Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business, and in life.”

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Glynnis MacNicol Quote: “This is why people have babies... because it’s exhausting not to know what you’re supposed to do next. A baby is basically a nonnegotiable map for the next two decades.”

6. “This is why people have babies... because it’s exhausting not to know what you’re supposed to do next. A baby is basically a nonnegotiable map for the next two decades.”

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Glynnis MacNicol Quote: “Maybe this was normal; we spend our childhoods with full faith in our parents’ decision-making, and our adulthoods second-guessing their every move, certain we know better.”

7. “Maybe this was normal; we spend our childhoods with full faith in our parents’ decision-making, and our adulthoods second-guessing their every move, certain we know better.”

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Glynnis MacNicol Quote: “I’ve noticed it’s almost always people who are living the exact opposite lives than you, and facing none of the risks, who are most encouraging.”

8. “I’ve noticed it’s almost always people who are living the exact opposite lives than you, and facing none of the risks, who are most encouraging.”

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Glynnis MacNicol Quote: “I knew better than to allow myself to be thrown into a mental temper tantrum over Instagram. It just took effort. I had to lean on my knowledge of the real lives of the people in the photos, which were just as complicated and flawed as my own.”

9. “I knew better than to allow myself to be thrown into a mental temper tantrum over Instagram. It just took effort. I had to lean on my knowledge of the real lives of the people in the photos, which were just as complicated and flawed as my own.”

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Glynnis MacNicol Quote: “What I wanted was for there to exist some way for me to say “I’m happy and sad and not jealous” all at the same time, and also “This is a loss and is still beautiful.” Maybe that was the wedding toast. “We are really the ones giving you away. And it’s hard. And I will miss our life. And I am still so happy for your happiness. And so proud of you.”

10. “What I wanted was for there to exist some way for me to say “I’m happy and sad and not jealous” all at the same time, and also “This is a loss and is still beautiful.” Maybe that was the wedding toast. “We are really the ones giving you away. And it’s hard. And I will miss our life. And I am still so happy for your happiness. And so proud of you.”

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Glynnis MacNicol Quote: “It was the singular blessing of an otherwise relentlessly cruel disease, but all I was able to think of as I watched the gleeful look on her face was what a waste of time all the good behavior had been. Her whole life stretched behind me now, and from this vantage point it seemed so short. And these concerns about other people’s opinions, which had dominated my mother’s thinking, seemed so fruitless and unworthy. I was overwhelmed with sadness for her.”

11. “It was the singular blessing of an otherwise relentlessly cruel disease, but all I was able to think of as I watched the gleeful look on her face was what a waste of time all the good behavior had been. Her whole life stretched behind me now, and from this vantage point it seemed so short. And these concerns about other people’s opinions, which had dominated my mother’s thinking, seemed so fruitless and unworthy. I was overwhelmed with sadness for her.”

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Glynnis MacNicol Quote: “It was hard work to root yourself so deeply in life that you could still love people and rely on them, knowing at any point they could make decisions that would leave you scrambling to find solid ground again.”

12. “It was hard work to root yourself so deeply in life that you could still love people and rely on them, knowing at any point they could make decisions that would leave you scrambling to find solid ground again.”

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Glynnis MacNicol Quote: “The solution to all my problems remained the same: I just needed to keep moving.”

13. “The solution to all my problems remained the same: I just needed to keep moving.”

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Glynnis MacNicol Quote: “Being alone sometimes felt like being a solitary tree atop a very windy hill; there was nothing between the world and me to break its impact.”

14. “Being alone sometimes felt like being a solitary tree atop a very windy hill; there was nothing between the world and me to break its impact.”

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Glynnis MacNicol Quote: “And I knew the simple act of reading would give my mind a certain sort of peace nothing else could.”

15. “And I knew the simple act of reading would give my mind a certain sort of peace nothing else could.”

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Glynnis MacNicol Quote: “But it seemed to me that going through life making decisions on what I might possibly feel in a future that may or may not come about was a bad way to live.”

16. “But it seemed to me that going through life making decisions on what I might possibly feel in a future that may or may not come about was a bad way to live.”

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Glynnis MacNicol Quote: “Not every encounter needed to be the first step in a permanent decision.”

17. “Not every encounter needed to be the first step in a permanent decision.”

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Glynnis MacNicol Quote: “There were times I worried my overdeveloped talent for self-sufficiency might be cutting me off from other equally valuable gifts, like the ability to tell others what I needed.”

18. “There were times I worried my overdeveloped talent for self-sufficiency might be cutting me off from other equally valuable gifts, like the ability to tell others what I needed.”

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Glynnis MacNicol Quote: “A wrong turn was never a wrong turn, it was simply a different route I had chosen.”

19. “A wrong turn was never a wrong turn, it was simply a different route I had chosen.”

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Glynnis MacNicol Quote: “I’d learned in the last year that being single past a certain age meant that many of the most difficult things in my life were the direct result of overflow from other people’s lives.”

20. “I’d learned in the last year that being single past a certain age meant that many of the most difficult things in my life were the direct result of overflow from other people’s lives.”

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