"I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it."
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"...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins."
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"It's not John who wants to cut his mother into tiny pieces, it's Mr. Monster. See? I feel better already."
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"Mother of mercy,"said Tovar."And that caused the riot?" "It's the other way around,"said Kira sheepishly."We started the riot as a distraction for the jaibreak." Tovar whistled."You don't mess aroud." P303"
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"Probably a dozen times since their death I've heard my mother or father, in an ordinary conversational tone of voice, call my name. They had called my name often during my life with them ... It doesn't seem strange to me."
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"I'm a working mother... You try to pay the bills, you try to keep your life going and there's pressure."
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"I'm trying to teach my daughter about healthy eating."
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"I have to be a teacher to my daughters."
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"I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too."
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"Society's the mother of convention."
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"To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence."
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"I'm the only one to separate siamese twins.The only one to operate on babies while they were still in mother's womb, the only one to take out half of a brain.But I'm very hopeful that I'm not the only one who's willing to pick up the baton of freedom, because freedom is not free, and we must fight for it every day. Every one of us must fight for it, because we're fighting for our children and the next generation."
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"My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart."
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"My mother only had a third grade education, was illiterate, worked as a domestic 2 to 3 jobs at a time, because she didn't want to be on welfare, because she never saw people who went on welfare come off of welfare, and she just didn't want to have her life controlled in that fashion."
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"But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?…we have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself."
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"We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both."
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"But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds."
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"Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother ... when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself."
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"Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother. Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him."
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"Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other - beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival - a knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other."
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