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"Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do even though it takes a lot."
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"Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark."

"Motherhood, true motherhood, was what went on when no one else could see."

"I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood."

"I thank my mother (Ma, you're only second cause you got the dedication), who used to make me write essays whenever I got into trouble, explaining exactly what I'd done and why I'd done it."

"As a Christian, your godly life and your godly mothering sends its shimmering wake throughout all eternity."

"Being a mother is not about 'birthing a child into the world.' Rather, it is about repeatedly 'birthing into the child' a steady sense of their inestimable worth, a prized understanding of their authentic self, a conviction that the impossible is largely the stuff of myth, and an utterly unwavering belief that cold actions of men never represent the warm heart of God. It is the relentless act of birthing these things into the innermost soul of a thirsty child that makes a woman a mother."

"She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink."

"The mother is the child's first relationship, his whole world, his existence. If there is love in the relationship between the child and the mother, the child learns to trust himself, to trust others and to trust life. If there is no love in the relationship between the mother and the child, the child learns to distrust himself, to distrust others and to distrust life."

"Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation."

"In a woman's womb another chance to makethe world a better place."
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"A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well."

"It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain."

"I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak."

"People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened."

"And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well."

"It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols."
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