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The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.
— Nancy Gibbs death
A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.
— Nancy Gibbs art
I live in a dumb house. Which is not to say that I don't love its quirky charm, its drafty windows and leaky fireplaces and an electrical system that protests when too many people are trying to vacuum and microwave at the same time. But charm is not always user-friendly.
— Nancy Gibbs love
Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger.
— Nancy Gibbs life
Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.
— Nancy Gibbs knowledge
We are bombarded with reasons to stay inside: we're afraid of mosquitoes because of West Nile and grass because of pesticides and sun because of cancer and sunscreen because of vitamin-D deficiency.
— Nancy Gibbs reason
All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
— Nancy Gibbs inspire
All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
— Nancy Gibbs war
Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.
— Nancy Gibbs soul
I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.
— Nancy Gibbs family
It's always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon.
— Nancy Gibbs paris
Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.
— Nancy Gibbs art
On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.
— Nancy Gibbs value
Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.
— Nancy Gibbs influence
The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
— Nancy Gibbs war
War is being waged all across the country against the invasive plant and animal species - some 50,000 of them - now spreading across the U.S.
— Nancy Gibbs reading
When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.
— Nancy Gibbs education
All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need most from us: to be deeply loved yet left alone so they can try a new skill, new slang, new style, new flip-flops. So they can trip a few times, make mistakes, cross them out, try again, with no one keeping score.
— Nancy Gibbs love
Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
— Nancy Gibbs control
High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others.
— Nancy Gibbs time
Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting dirty in whole new ways and rarely glancing in the direction of a screen of any kind.
— Nancy Gibbs food
Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
— Nancy Gibbs failure
Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
— Nancy Gibbs work
New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.
— Nancy Gibbs art
Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well.
— Nancy Gibbs men

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