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• It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
• Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but…
• This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
• The soul is awakened through service.
• There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start…
• Generations of women have sacrificed their lives to become their mothers. But we do not have that luxury any more. The world…
• My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her…
• Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
• Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
• Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
• When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
• You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.

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