What the emerging field of interpersonal neurobiology can teach us about the brain on love and how we shape one another through relationships.
For a deeper look, see the excellent A General Theory of Love.
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After the booklovers map of American literary geography and the typographic literary map of the UK, a typographic literary map of America.
“I have always been champion.”
“I love my nation. I played for my nation and I just see families being destroyed, whether it’s through homosexuality…”
- Margaret Court
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“If you ever want to get out of those baby bras you have to exercise,” she told us.
“What kind of exercise?” Gretchen asked.
“Like this,” Nancy said. She made fists, bent her arms at the elbow and moved them back and forth, sticking her chest way out. She said, “I must — I must — I must increase my bust.” She said it over and over. We copied her movements and chanted with her. “We must – we must – we must increase our bust!”
- Judy Blume - “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret”
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For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
Luke 14:11
“When I spoke a month ago and stood for marriage, things came back from tennis players who probably didn’t read what I wrote. It had nothing to do with people personally or tennis players. I remember speaking to Navratilova 10 years ago on something she brought up with me and I said ‘Martina, I love you, God loves you, but a wrong doesn’t make a right’”
- Margaret Court
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“Well, let’s get to it. We all feel each other’s backs to make sure we’re wearing our bras.”
We all were.
“What size did you get, Janie?” Gretchen asked.
“I got a Gro-Bra,” Janie said.
“Me too,” I said.
“Me too!” Gretchen laughed.
“Not me,” Nancy said, proudly. “Mine’s a thirty-two double A.”
We were all impressed.”
- Judy Blume - “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret”
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“Want to know another secret? I’m even ambidextrous. I don’t like labels. Just call me Martina.”
- Martina Navratilova
“And I’ll say this, if I had a child playing tennis today I wouldn’t let that child go on her own on the circuit because I think there is a wrong spirit on the women’s tour. Young people can get snared into that world. People go into homosexuality thinking they’re like that and they’re actually not. I’d want to keep them on the straight and narrow.”
- Margaret Court
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“There was something wrong with me. I just knew it. And there wasn’t a thing I could do about it. I flopped onto my bed and cried. Next week Nancy would want to tell me all about her period and how grown up she was. Well, I didn’t want to hear her good news!”
- Judy Blume - “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret”
“It is hard that they can voice their opinions but I am not allowed to voice my opinion. There is something wrong somewhere.”
- Margaret Court
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“Suppose everybody there hates me? Please help me God.”
- Judy Blume - “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret”
