"I have a lot of respect for my birth mother I know she must have had a lot of love for me to want to give what she felt was a better chance."
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"Enjoy the pregnancy, not racing ahead and relishing the moment. I think people see pregnancy as something to get over with, but every stage of becoming a mother is really special."
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"Poverty is the mother of crime."
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"Becoming a mother has been the most amazing experience - in an instant you become strong. You have to be a little bit wiser; it's the most important job in the world."
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"A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art."
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"Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job."
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"A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so."
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"He who wisheth to enter Paradise at the best door must please his father and mother."
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"It is now our generation's task to carry on what those pioneers began. For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law - for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well."
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"The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is nothing, but the brazen floor of heaven is eternally unshakable."
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"I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things."
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"A guilty conscience is the mother of invention."
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"Silence is the mother of truth."
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"Memory is the mother of all wisdom."
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"Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers."
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"Although your father and mother are dead, if you propose to yourself any good work, only reflect how it will make their names illustrious, and your purpose will be fixed."
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"[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop."
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"My father worked for the same firm for 12 years. They fired him and replaced him with a tiny gadget that does everything my father does, only much better. The depressing thing is my mother ran out and bought one"
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"Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies."
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"My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you."
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