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"Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?"
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"Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street."
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"The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child."
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"No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time."
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"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
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"A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators."
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"Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds."
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"My mother is my doctorCaring for me when am illI will love her forever tillWe are gone to our creator!"
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"I squinted at her. "You're an adult. "You're an adult too. "But you're an older adult. You've had more practice. Mom leaned back and laughed."
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"Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock."
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"All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing."
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"Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other."
Life

"The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved."
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"Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism."
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"The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice."
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"Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?"
Family

"No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time."
Time

"Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed."
Expression

"No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action."
Change

"There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics."
Politics

"Crime is naught but misdirected energy."
Crime
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