Mary Blakely Quotes

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• Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.
• A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just…
• One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in…
• Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by pass. After such a monumental assault on the heart, it takes years to amend all…
• If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced.
• Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like tornado alerts in…
• Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.
• The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for…
• Women aren't trying to do too much. Women have too much to do.
• It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world,…
• Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way…

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