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"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."

"My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping."

"When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half."

"The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up."

"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."
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"Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means."


"My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle."
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