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God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered as wrinkled… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Part a of scene from 'Bitterblue' between Madlen (Bitterblue's medicine woman) and Bitterblue: Madlen came to sit beside her [Bitterblue] on the… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-" "The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl." He… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
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I never lived the life of 'Oh, you're so good-looking'. People thought I was a girl when I was little, because I… — Bradley Cooper Copy Share Image
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Well if I had my choice I would not - I wouldn't mind working with Alec Baldwin, but the mother role -… — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose love would follow me… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I had very low self-esteem. Books saved me. I found friends in stories like The Chronicles of Narnia and A Tree Grows… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
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As he walks away on his own two feet--the toddler's body-mind has reached its moment of perfection. The world is his and… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Many people are very, very concerned with the children in India, with the children in Africa where quite a number die, maybe… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It was about loving my mother… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
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I just naturally started to play music. My whole family played-my daddy played, my mother played. My daddy played bass, my cousin… — T-Bone Walker Copy Share Image
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For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
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I was very offended as this damages my reputation as a Muslim and a headscarf-wearer, and my father to whom religion is… — Shila Amzah Copy Share Image
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I had a tough childhood, yes. I was born in rural Bangladesh to parents who had had no education beyond high school.… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
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Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
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I imagine there is no worse time than the loss of a mother. Your mom was truly one of the most open… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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