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"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."
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"The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother."
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"People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you."
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"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."
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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife."
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"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother."
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"I still have my bad days when I think I'm not getting everything I deserve. But those pass quickly once my Mother gets on the phone and says, 'listen, we used to eat rocks and walk 80 miles a day to school."
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"Until I got married, when I used to go out, my mother said good bye to me as though I was emigrating."
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"I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late."
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"The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable."
Mother
"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."
Writer
"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
Anthropology
"The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive."
Anthropology
"I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now."
People
"My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things."
People
"I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology."
Anthropology
"It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it."
Anthropology
"I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things."
Soul
"If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code."
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