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Mother Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
- It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
- I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future…
- Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for…
- My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand…
- A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body…
- He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your…
- You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.
- Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.
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