"The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career."
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"When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out."
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"When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit."
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"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
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"If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them."
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"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."
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"The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal."
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"After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations."
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"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."
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"It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself."
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"A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness"
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"The whole world is one family."
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"If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center."
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"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."
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"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
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"When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action."
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"My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint."
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"If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves."
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"May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you"
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"When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well."
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