"I fell in love with words and I think that made my mom smile. I think that was cool for her."
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"~I don't always have a lot of energy, but my kids almost always revitalize me. Of course like any working mom, sometimes I'm guilt-ridden. I think I should be sitting down doing an educational computer game with Carrie or taking Ellie to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. These kids are such sponges, and I should be taking advantage of that.~"
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"A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones."
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"Youre still beautiful to me, cause youre my mom."
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"Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter."
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"Because my mom always told me that I could. From a very early age, I felt comfortable leading."
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"Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething."
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"My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls... that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe."
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"My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me."
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"I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day."
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"Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act."
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"Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face."
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"99% of my life I was lied to. I just found out my mom does more dope than I do(Damn!). I told her I'd grow up to be a famous rapper, make a record about doing drugs and name it after her (-Oh, thank you!)."
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"Well the first time I performed, my mom was like how she is now when sees me on stage – all red, smiling from ear to ear. So I don’t want to mess up, [be]cause she’s smiling. Seeing my mom happy is kind of like an overwhelming feeling."
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"The biggest empty space, the biggest gap in what should be a premier and always vibrant food scene in America is that we don't have hawker centers like they do in Singapore, basically food courts where mom and pop specialists can set up shop in fairly hygienic little stalls all up to health code making one dish they've been doing forever and ever."
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"My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton."
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"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not."
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"Anyone must remember that dad left when I was 3 years old. Mom and I lived out of the limelight. We lived a totally different life."
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"I call my mom from the car. I tell her that Neutral Milk Hotel is playing at the Hideout and she says, "Who? What? You're hiding out?" And then I hum a few bars of one of their songs and Mom says, "Oh, I know that song. It's on the mix you made me," and I say, "Right," and she says, "Well you have to be back by eleven," and I say, "Mom this is a historical event. History doesn't have a curfew," and she says, "Back by eleven," and I say, "Fine. Jesus," and then she has to go cut cancer out of someone."
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"I told my mom the reason I started working out was because I wanted to break the necks of the people picking on me. I wanted to hurt them. I said I didn't want any teacher to put me down any more."
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