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> [My mother Vivian Ayers always instilled within her children that our opinions, our thoughts and our ideas about what was possible was important. My mother made me feel that I was important as a thinker at four-years-old. And I instill…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debbie-allen/my-mother-vivian-ayers-always-instilled-within-her-children-that-our/)

[Debbie Allen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debbie-allen/)

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> [Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-eugenides/jacques-derrida-is-a-very-important-thinker-and-philosopher-who-has/)

[Jeffrey Eugenides](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-eugenides/)

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