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Cynthia Lennon Author, Musician
Mother

"The first thing Julian wanted to do in life, well, before he wanted to be an artist and then a musician, was to be a chef. He'd come home and say 'Why don't you bake cakes like my friends' mothers?' I'd say, 'Oh, Julian, go out and buy a Mary Baker cake mix and do it yourself!' That started him off! By the time he was 13, he'd disappear into the kitchen whenever we had visitors and emerge with beautiful canapes. Now he thinks nothing of cooking for ten or 15 people, and he does it so calmly."

Home Beautiful Mother
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Billy Graham Evangelist, Author
Mother

"The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness and industry."

Mother Attitude Honesty
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Samuel Beckett Playwright, Novelist
Mother

"Yes, there is no denying it, any longer, it is not you who are dead, but all the others. So you get up and go to your mother, who thinks she is alive. That's my impression. But now I shall have to get myself out of this ditch. How joyfully I would vanish here, sinking deeper and deeper under the rains."

Thinking Mother Rain
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Viola Davis Actress, Producer
Mother

"I guess they say, "Necessity is the mother of invention" because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it."

Two Mother Desperate Situations
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Rick James Musician
Mother

"I get some letters from girls that if their mothers knew what they were writing me in these letters, they'd get their butts whipped."

Writing Mother Girl
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Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author
Mother

"Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth."

Children Mother Opinion
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Robert Jordan Author
Mother

"Thank you," the young mother said again. "Thank you." "The Black Tower protects," Logain heard himself say. "Always." "I will send him to you to be tested when he is of age," the woman promised, holding her son. "I would have him join you, if he has the talent." The talent. Not the curse. The talent."

Mother Son Black
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Stephen King Author
Mother

"For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all."

Children Jobs Mother
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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist
Mother

"I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted a plain English major. But an English major who knew shorthand would be something else again. Everybody would want her. She would be in demand among all the up-and-coming young men and she would transcribe letter after thrilling letter. The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way. I wanted to dictate my own thrilling letters."

Jobs Mother College
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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
Mother

"Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children."

Children Mother Love
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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
Mother

"She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person."

Want Mother Sister
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Fiona Shaw Actress
Mother

"I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion."

Mother Order Singing
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Isabel Allende Novelist
Mother

"Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed."

Children Mother Daughter
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Lauryn Hill Singer, Songwriter
Mother

"I'm trying to be a loving and caring mother, a loving and caring wife-to-be, a loving and caring daughter, a loving and caring friend, a responsible person. And every day is another opportunity for me to be successful at that."

Mother Successful Daughter
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Marguerite Duras Writer, Filmmaker
Mother

"I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met."

People Believe Mother
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