Mona Simpson Quotes

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• My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for…
• Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop…
• My first job was to run a concessions cart. Later, I found a position at the Pacific Film Archive. Thus began a long series of…
• If a mother is sitting in a chair at the office, someone needs to be at home with her child. In some cases, that is…
• The transparency men have enjoyed for generations, about their ability to frankly work while also reveling in fatherhood, is still complicated for women. Which is…
• We go to college, live together or marry, and have kids - often with little more thought to the daily routines of raising children than…
• Even more than we want good love for ourselves, we want it for our children, those vulnerable satellites of our hearts that we send, unsteady,…

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