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"A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother."
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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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"A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for."
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"When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent."
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"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin."
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"My mother taught me to read."
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"So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves."
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"My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive."
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"My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland."
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"My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store."
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"To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art."
Art

"I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens."
Body

"On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life."
Life

"I waged war against my feelings."
War

"But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns."
Birds

"As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature."
Nature

"Duruing all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks."
Nature

"I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children."
Life

"Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased."
Mother

"Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?"
Hope
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