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"I have spent my life reassembling the family farm."
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"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."

"So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball."

"Like all feelings felt for oneself, Mrs. Ramsay thought, it made one sad. It was so inadequate, what one could give in return; and what Rose felt was quite out of proportion to anything she actually was."

"And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we'd meet there again."

"What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers."

"Of course there are mothers,squeezing their breastsdry, pawning their bodies,shedding teeth for their children,or that's our fond belief.But remember - Hanseland Gretel were dumped in the forestbecause their parents were starving."

"One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves."

"Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next."
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"I've got to restructure all my personal life now in order to accommodate public service, which is fine."


"If you get through the primary and you work very hard for three months and you're not successful, you go back to being normal. The only thing that changes your life forever is if you win."


"We're novices. We have friends now who are part of the freshman class who in some cases have run for Congress two and three times before they won their seat."
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