Mary Ellen Snodgrass

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Mary Ellen Snodgrass (born February 29, 1944) is an American educator and writer of textbooks and general reference works.

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It would be easier to peel off a three-day-old Band-Aid from a hairy kneecap than to remove the patina of Baptist upbringing that coats my psyche.

—Mary Ellen Snodgrass

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Bringing up teenagers is like sweeping back ocean waves with a frazzled broom — the inundation of outside influences never stops. Whatever the lure — cars, easy money, cigarettes, drugs, booze, sex, crime — much that glitters along the shore has a thousand times the appeal of a parent's lecture.

—Mary Ellen Snodgrass

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