"A mother's love liberates."
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"For the sake of the sons - and even for the son's future wives - a woman must keep a part of her mind and heart entirely for herself. Every family is better off with a wife and mother who can astonish and occasionally dewilder."
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"My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead."
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"The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family."
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"Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents."
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"Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self."
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"Success, wealth, good health and nurturing relationships are by-products of happiness, not the cause."
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"I was blessed to have family members who encouraged me to pursue my dreams. Whether it is your parents, or your uncles or your aunts or even the neighbor down the road, it's important that kids have someone who encourages them to chase their rainbow."
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"Our family life was certainly not intellectual."
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"Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life."
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"No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy."
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"Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance."
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"I stay in tune with my family and God."
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"Papa wasn't man enough, couldn't stand up to his responsibilities. Instead of taking care of me, he'd rather live lavishly."
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"Even as a dope fiend mama. You always was a black queen mama."
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"Writers will happen in the best of families."
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"People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of anextreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions."
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"If the family goes, so goes our civilization."
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"Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being."
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"Live every act fully, as if it were your last."
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