"I think being a mother is the cruelest…" — Nella Larsen
"I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world."
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10 Quotes by Nella Larsen
Nella Larsen has 10 quotes on this site.
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Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase.
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I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me.
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Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a…
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Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, thought I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.
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What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins?
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These people yapped loudly of race, of race consciousness, of race pride, and yet suppressed its most delightful manifestations, love…
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Somewhere, within her, in a deep recess, crouched discontent. She began to lose confidence in the fullness of her life,…
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Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it
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The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that…
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More Cruelest Quotes
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Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your…
— Rick Reilly
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In running it is man against himself, the cruelest of opponents. The other runners are not the real enemies. His…
— Glenn Cunningham
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No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst…
— Jim Butcher
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Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can…
— Buster Keaton
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Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management…
— Jack Welch
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The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses…
— Samuel Pisar
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Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be…
— Tori Amos
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
— Lord Byron
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The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.
— Irving Howe
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