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I hear from a lot of young kids. One said to me, 'You remind me of my house mother that passed away,'… — Mj Rodriguez Copy Share Image
My mom died when I was 22. My stepfather, who I loved like a father, pretty quickly got involved with another woman.… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
My great grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry wood, and her children gazing on; The hounded slave that flags in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I've basically grown up in America. Even if Iran were to change, I wouldn't see myself moving there. That feeling exists for… — Maz Jobrani Copy Share Image
Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people – mothers, children, babies, civilians – lost their lives as… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I think the mother of all arguments against eating meat now is the climate change argument. Methane is a much more powerful… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
“Elsa's mother no longer spoke to her of men and love, but of duty and fate and accepting one’s burden. As far… — Kathy-Diane Leveille Copy Share Image
I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
What was so moving for [Diane Wilson], and also for me, is that she felt the Bay itself was like her grandmother.… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
“You are your mother and your father. You are your experiences and your fears and the love you let yourself feel. You… — Renee Carlino Copy Share Image
“Odd that you should choose to be a midwife, having never experienced birth yourself.” In other circumstances the words would have stung.… — Roberta Rich Copy Share Image
We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract.… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everything he had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
People love the idea of a good girl gone bad, thinking that my parents were so strict and disowned me, but that… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
“How do we know we're not people in a movie?' she asked. I looked at her not knowing how to reply. Mama,… — Julie Metz Copy Share Image
One job I did turn down was 'How I Met Your Mother.' My character was 'creepy gay guy.' That was the character.… — Leslie Jordan Copy Share Image
My mother saw nothing inconsistent in her traditional desire to look after her husband and children and her radical politics. She began… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
“There she was, the mother of me, like a lit plinth, Heavenly, though I was reared to find this kind Of visitation… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
I remember I had had one woman who had three or four kids, and some of them were having problems. I said,… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
As Anna Freud remarked, the toddler who wanders off into some other aisle, feels lost, and screams anxiously for his mother neversays… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
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“Ann didn't move. There was no use; her mother had seen her. She could try to hide the flowered plates but that… — Jean Fritz Copy Share Image
When we were little, we kept close to our mother in a dark alley or if dogs barked at us. Now, when… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
I cannot admit this out loud. In the first place, we are expected to be supermoms these days, instead of admitting that… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
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My mother was the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. There are moments when I remember her beauty, unadorned, unposed, not… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
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The ghost of the heart of manred Cain And the more murderous brain Of Man, still redder Nero that conceived the death… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
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Democracy is the best revenge. After Benazir Bhutto's death, her son's brief public remarks were captured on video, and they were reported… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
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![“What was so moving for [Diane Wilson], and also for me, is that she felt the Bay itself was like her grandmother. She said, "I don't think there's a woman alive who would give up fighting for her child, or her mother, or her grandmother."” quote by Frances Moore Lappé](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/067/frances-moore-lapp-4271_alive_what-was-so-moving-for-diane-wilson-and_2975389.png)
![“How do we know we're not people in a movie?' she asked. I looked at her not knowing how to reply. Mama, [...] how do we know that things are real?' Great. Now we have a junior existentialist in the house. Well, we don't know. We just have to hope that what we think is real is real.' But how do we…” quote by Julie Metz](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a6e/julie-metz-37267_conversation_how-do-we-know-we-re-not-people-in-a-mov_2243315.jpg)
