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Charlotte Bronte Novelist, Poet
Mother

"Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love have I for Miss Ingram? None: and that you know. What love has she for me? None: as I have taken pains to prove; I caused a rumor to reach her that my fortune was not a third of what was supposed, and after that I presented myself to see the result; it was coldness both from her and her mother. I would not-I could not-marry Miss Ingram. You-you strange-you almost unearthly thing!-I love as my own flesh. You-poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are-I entreat to accept me as a husband."

Mother Pain Husband
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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
Mother

"my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile! why don't you ever smile?" and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw"

Two Mother Three
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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
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"Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren’t we going to run out of gas?' No there’s plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I’m going to get some god-damed oranges!"

Running Mother Orange
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
Mother

"[Kant] was like many people: in intellectual matters he was skeptical, but in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that he had imbibed at his mother's knee."

People Mother Intellectual
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or whether Napoleon , at Austerlitz, really felt that he was getting even with Madame Mère. I know nothing of the mother of Attila , but I rather suspect that she spoilt the little darling, who subsequently found the world irritating because it sometimes resisted his whims."

Men Mother Father
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Alan King Comedian, Actor
Mother

"Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank."

Mother Balls Fluffy
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Alan King Comedian, Actor
Mother

"My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins."

Mother Eight Cousin
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Betty Smith Author
Mother

"Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to grow up just to work hard. What must I do, mother, what must I do to make a different world for her? How do I start?" "The secret lies in the reading and the writing. You are able to read. Every day you must read one page from some good book to your child. Every day this must be until the child learns to read. Then she must read every day, I know this is the secret"

Children Mother Strong
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Betty Smith Author
Mother

"And you must tell the child the legends I told you - as my mother told them to me and her mother to her. You must tell the fairy tales of the old country. You must tell of those not of the earth who live forever in the hearts of the people."

Children Country Mother
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Mother

"The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman, a mother, an artist, and a feminist - whatever you want to be - and still be a sexual being. It's not mutually exclusive."

Mother Artist Feminist
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Mother

"We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date."

Mother Numbers Birthday
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Mother

"I am very protective. I just want to make sure that she can have a healthy, safe, normal life...in the back of my mind, she's my priority. And life is completely different now. I feel really, really just lucky that I can still do what I love, and now have a way bigger meaning. And that's to be her mother."

Mother Healthy Priorities
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Mother

"I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work. I see them and I have this word in my head - respect. I also look to learn. I see these women and I think, 'Yes, it can be balanced, it can all work out.'"

Thinking Mother Work Out
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Mother

"My mom is one of those people that you feel honored to meet. And no matter who you are, you fall in love with her because she is spiritual, she's inspiring, she's strong, she's funny, she's creative, she's talented... she's everything that I want to be."

Mother Spiritual Mom
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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Mother

"Talking to mothers, always brings it home because they're so anxious to do everything they can for their kids and so tragic for them."

Home Kids Mother
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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"We're very enthused about the idea that in the third trimester we actually give the mother a vaccine and her antibodies, the protective things that the immune system makes, actually pass through to the baby, both when the baby is born, and through the mother's milk. Because the baby's immune system is actually not very strong for that first few months, using the mother's immune system to do this - it's a very exciting idea and something that we're investing heavily in."

Mother Strong Baby
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Bill Murray Actor, Comedian
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"The money thing is, the sort of Elvis Presley thing of buying you mother car is great, that's very good. My mother has learned how to spend money."

Mother Car Buying
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