4 Quotes & Sayings By Carol Matas

Carol Matas is a bankruptcy lawyer and a bestselling author, whose first book, "The Death of Trust: The Patient's Guide to Estate Planning," was named by The New York Times as one of the Best Books of the Year. With the publication of her second book, "Trust: The Fable of Good Intentions," published by HarperCollins in 2006, she became the only person to have won both the National Law Journal's Author of the Year and Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Author of the Year awards. Her third book, "Trust: A Memoir" (HarperCollins), was published in 2008 and was named by The New York Times as one of the Best Books of 2008. Her latest book, "Practical Trust: A Little Book That Can Change Your Life," was published by HarperCollins in 2011 and has been praised as an instant classic by such authors as Richard Stengel Read more

Carol serves as a trustee on the boards of the Authors Guild, Women Lawyers for Public Policy, and Author Education Foundation. She is also a trustee on the board of trustees for The William J. Clinton Foundation and serves as an advisor to Centerlink Foundation for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University.

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We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That's all we know for sure. We can't create a new species or a new world. That's been done. Now we have to live within those boundaries . What are our choices? We can despair and curse, and change nothing. We can choose evil like our enemies have done and create a world based on hate. Or we can try to make things better. Carol Matas
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Will you be all right?" she asked How could Carol Matas
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As for sex. Well, of course I could’ve had sex. Guys will have sex with a watermelon if they’re desperate enough. Lots of girls try to prove their love by having sex. It only proves they’re having sex. Carol Matas