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Caroline Leavitt Quotes: Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands.
         

Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands.


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I always think that in a big city, anything is possible, including reinventing yourself.



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I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.



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I can see her weighing her response, concentrating like a cliff diver studying the ebb and flow of the tide."Um, well... could you at least give me an idea?""Two weeks give or take a week or two.



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