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"The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires."
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"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
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"Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit."
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"If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times!"
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"You don't build a family by tearing down another one."
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"Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels."
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"Could it be? Samantha Kingston? Home? On a Friday? I roll my eyes. "I don't know. Did you do a lot of acid in the sixties? Could be a flashback. "I was two years old in 1960. I came too late for the party. He leans down and pecks me on the head. I pull away out of habit. "And I'm not even going to ask how you know about acid flashbacks. "What's an acid flashback? Izzy crows. "Nothing, my dad and I say at the same time, and he smiles at me."
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"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."
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"...workplace dynamics are no less complicated or unexpectedly intense than family relations, with only the added difficulty that whereas families are at least well-recognised and sanctioned loci for hysteria reminiscent of scenes from Medea, office life typically proceeds behind a mask of shallow cheerfulness, leaving workers grievously unprepared to handle the fury and sadness continually aroused by their colleagues."
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"You will never realize how precious a baby is until she keeps you awake through the whole night."
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"My mother. I don't think too harshly of her. I know she did all she could not to have me, except of course the one thing, and if she never succeeded in getting me unstuck, it was that fate had earmarked me for less compassionate sewers."
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"I shudder at the thought of men....I'm due to fall in love again."
Love
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
Humor
"The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'cheque enclosed'."
Humor
"You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine."
Emotion
"Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne."
Contentment
"She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age."
Philosophy
"She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go."
Affection
"Don't look at me in that tone of voice."
Communication
"Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night."
Survival
"It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day."
Poetry
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