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George Eliot

"All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other."

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"All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other."

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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."

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"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."

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

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"I always envisioned myself as traveling the ocean of life in a rowboat where my mother was one oar and my father, the other. Having two good, solid oars made rowing much easier."

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"I stumble and fall.I weep and struggle to rise.My mom feels it all."

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"One of the strongest loves I've ever witnessed is the love a mother has for her child."

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"All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

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"Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy."

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"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."

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"I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations."

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