"My mom was paranoid about my safety." — Jane Smiley
"My mom was paranoid about my safety."
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102 Quotes by Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley has 102 quotes on this site.
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People with good intentions never give up!
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Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out…
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With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief.
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As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.
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Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that…
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Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a…
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One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew…
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Many said that now there was no hope of salvation, for a man might do anything and be in the…
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After a long day, folk rest at night. After a long summer, folk play games and sit about in the…
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The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into…
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When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best…
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I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that…
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
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Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.
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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was…
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Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture…
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I've always competed in those shows. Like, I won 'Fear Factor', I did 'I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of…
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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of…
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A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise…
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
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It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it…
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My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my…
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My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.
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