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The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them,…
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I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now…
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I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehersal, and that today is…
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The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific…
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With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go…
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People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage…
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All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.
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If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.
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There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into…
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Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.
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Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs…
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It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for…
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I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
— Susie Bright
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We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own…
— Mother Teresa
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Motherhood involves a special communion with the mystery of life, as it develops in the mother's womb. The mother is filled with…
— Pope John Paul II
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February 1997 - National Prayer Breakfast in Washington attended by the President and the First Lady. "What is taking place in America,"…
— Mother Teresa
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And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill…
— Mother Teresa
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A book is so much a part of oneself that in delivering it to the public one feels as if one were…
— Quentin Bell
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By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently…
— Mark Twain
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There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who…
— Robert Breault
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By abortion the Mother does not learn to love, but kills her own child to solve her problems. And, by abortion, that…
— Mother Teresa
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By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems.
— Mother Teresa
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I wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else for that matter.
— Lynn Freed
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Many people are very, very concerned with the children in India, with the children in Africa where quite a number die, maybe…
— Mother Teresa
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