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Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."


Amy Vanderbilt

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AMY LOWELL Memory feeds imagination.
AMY TAN You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!
AMY TAN Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it ...
AMY LEE I don't think it should be a surprise when we're talking about energy and trying to have mor...
AMY KLOBUCHAR I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance a...
AMY KLOBUCHAR There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have...
AMY LEE Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's n...
AMY LEE When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8...
AMY ROBACH I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried pr...
AMY WALDMAN I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had w...
AMY CHUA Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me th...
AMY WALDMAN I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at al...
AMY POEHLER I was on my death bed, and I remember hanging on to these words, 'Don't be scared. You are g...
AMY PURDY When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. ...
AMY POEHLER The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins a...
AMY LEE In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In Amer...
AMY CHUA At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing a...
AMY TAN Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, tra...
AMY CHUA I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, st...
AMY POEHLER I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.
AMY WINEHOUSE Pfizer's actually teamed up with my nonprofit organization, which is called Adaptive Action Spor...
AMY PURDY After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on ...
AMY PURDY Tina Fey and I have 15 things in development: 'Laverne and Shirley', 'Starsky and Hutch ...
AMY POEHLER Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't tr...
AMY POEHLER When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accuse...
AMY ADAMS I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd ba...
AMY HECKERLING I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don...
AMY GRANT When I go on holiday, I wear wedges. They accentuate your leg, honey, and you have to look good on t...
AMY CHILDS Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This lo...
AMY TAN We can stop the cycle of animal homelessness and save lives by opening our hearts and homes to a lov...
AMY JACKSON