Something I've always written about is social expectations: that the eyes of the community are on you all the time, expecting you to line up with certain social norms, certain behaviours. Whenever you forgot about them, they'd be strongly reiterated to you, in no uncertain terms.


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Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about...
LYNN JOHNSTON
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
LYNN HALL
I'm on the board of the Sierra Club Foundation and am myself a big environmentalist. But the way...
LYNN JURICH
It's so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new ...
LYNN SAMUELS
Widow" is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means "empty." I have been em...
LYNN CAINE
I was shocked when they nominated me for five different things,
LORETTA LYNN
His son was so young. We need to make sure what happened to his son doesn't happen to anyone else's ...
LORETTA LYNN
I lost a son, too, so I can relate.
LORETTA LYNN
Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piec...
LORETTA LYNN
Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.
LORETTA LYNN
In the long run, you make your own luck -- good, bad, or indifferent.
LORETTA LYNN
I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get establish...
LORETTA LYNN
It's kind of like my first one, ... It's back to real country.
LORETTA LYNN
I just can't wait to come back, but what hurts me most, honey, is having to leave, ... That's home f...
LORETTA LYNN
I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.
LORETTA LYNN
Nobody wants a fraternity in the center of their neighborhood. How many more headlines about drugs, ...
DAVID LYNN
If your representative in Congress can't explain a vote on abortion or the environment without 'proo...
BARRY LYNN
We must work together to strengthen Jerusalem as a modern, open capital and to foster welcoming, inc...
LYNN SCHUSTERMAN
Ascertain a trend rather than a reaction ? try not to read too much into economic numbers,
LYNN REASER
By supporting all the links in the building chain and giving them an easy, intuitive tool for sharin...
GREG LYNN
Now is not the time for us to shy away from challenging ourselves to make substantive change for the...
LYNN SCHUSTERMAN
You can be even fitter at 60 than you were at 20.
LYNN DAVIES
Our nation's power plant fleet must include a mix of solar, wind, hydro, natural gas and nuclear...
LYNN GOOD
No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few...
LYNN ABBEY
I'd love for there to be a situation - a world in which that's just not even a question anym...
LYNN SHELTON
There's so much hard work, dedication, and focus goes in from not just the athletes but from the...
LYNN DAVIES
I don't see a sea change by 2020, but I see migration in the direction of modernization and more...
LYNN GOOD
In my work with young Jewish adults in the gay community, I hear their stories of discrimination, of...
LYNN SCHUSTERMAN
It took several years of trial and error, soul-searching and hard work to shape the ROI program into...
LYNN SCHUSTERMAN
Fracking has been a real technological change that has caused great innovation in our business, and ...
LYNN GOOD
People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. That's ridiculous. If you rid t...
LYNN MARGULIS
I think a four-year ban would effectively rule out one Olympic games - a life ban is too harsh. I th...
LYNN DAVIES
While the Index remains below its pre-Katrina levels, the shock of the hurricanes and subsequent lea...
LYNN FRANCO
Once consumers file online, they tend to stay online. The number of people filing their federal taxe...
LYNN FRANCO
I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a po...
LYNN JOHNSTON
It was not about the guy who could jump the furthest; it was about the guy who could jump the furthe...
LYNN DAVIES
I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.
LYNN BARBER
Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-spec...
LYNN MARGULIS
All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled...
LYNN MARGULIS