Wanting
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And then one woman, stumped but
wanting
so desperately to show her support, to let me know she was on my side, she finally blurted out, "Well, sometimes my husband wears pink shirts."
That sometimes shows up in the first decade of life, but it can be very confusing for parents, because it is quite normative for children to act in a cross-gender play and way, and, in fact, there are studies that show that even 80 percent of children who act in that fashion will not persist in
wanting
to be the opposite gender at the time when puberty begins.
So she kept
wanting
to talk to me and Jenn.
It's in constantly
wanting
to close that gap between where you are and where you want to be.
And the simplest way that I knew how to co-opt myself into that experience of
wanting
to be in that song somehow was to just get a band together of fellow nine-year-olds and play "Wild Boys" at the school talent show.
It seems like we're always stuck between demonizing a species and
wanting
to wipe it out, and then when we get very close to doing that, empathizing with it as an underdog and
wanting
to show it compassion.
I've lost count of the number of times that I've been approached by strangers
wanting
to tell me that they think I'm brave or inspirational, and this was long before my work had any kind of public profile.
We know people who are like this in conversation, and it's very hard to listen to somebody if you know that you're being judged and found
wanting
at the same time.
But the thing was, my friends read it, and they're like, "Oh, that Mena, she wrote a post about
wanting
a stupid thing and being stupid."
And that was amazing, to be able to know that we had empowered that, and that blogging was something that she felt comfortable doing, and the idea that blogging doesn't have to be scary, that we don't always have to be attack of the blogs, that we can be people who are open, and
wanting
to help and talk to people.
Silence, in terms of citizens not engaging, simply not
wanting
to participate.
I remember just
wanting
to lie down and quit.
I was actually just
wanting
to activate these buildings as much as I could with whatever and whoever would join me.
And the very structure of an affair, the fact that you can never have your lover, keeps you
wanting.
That in itself is a desire machine, because the incompleteness, the ambiguity, keeps you
wanting
that which you can't have.
But I didn't start out
wanting
to be a part of somebody's crime reduction strategy.
I remember screaming hysterically and
wanting
it to stop, as I did every single time it happened, for things as minor as
wanting
to go out with her friends, or being a little late.
I don't blame the biologists for not having to or
wanting
to learn quantum mechanics.
And what I want, what perhaps I will spend my life wanting, is for that myth to be true.
So some years ago,
wanting
to understand this problem, I started to work with a group of about 60 older people in South London, where I live.
David had a huge mission of
wanting
to work for the poor and improve his own government.
Not
wanting
to fall too far behind, President Eisenhower ordered the Navy to speed up its own project and launch a satellite as soon as possible.
Many of the inner city Boston men ask us, "Why do you keep
wanting
to study me?
And Emerson says, "Honey, I'm
wanting
to go to ShondaLand."
But what she does remember is throwing up in the hall outside Mike's room and staring at the wall silently while he was inside her,
wanting
it to stop, then shakily stumbling home.
It's the shame of
wanting
something good.
What's shielded me from hatred and
wanting
retribution, what's given me the courage to say: this ends with me is love.
But studies also show that discrimination of this kind, in most cases, is simply favoritism, and it results more from
wanting
to help people that you can relate to than the desire to harm people that you can't relate to.
Wanting
to be a green country powered by renewables is already part of our story.
He would even wake up sometimes at night
wanting
to scratch his lost feet.
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