In long-term relationships. . . we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness. … - Harriet Lerner

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The only question that matters with regard to a religion and its mythology is “What do these stories mean?

Harriet Lerner

In long-term relationships. . . we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness. . . we confront the challenge of sustaining both--without losing either.

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The happiest people are focused on living their own life (not someone else's) as well as possible.

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The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don't want to.

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This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old.

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As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way.

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