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"It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else."
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"My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up."
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"My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material."
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"What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad."
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"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."
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"Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous."
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"No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that."
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"My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer."
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"My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity."
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"Sarah will talk to me about someone and I don't know who she's talking about, but if she talks to my mother, the two of them will know exactly - and across several generations, too."
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"But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn't having it. She was like, you're not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you're going to be out of luck."
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"You have to defend your honor. And your family."
Family
"A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized."
Writing
"Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair."
Fight
"Some girls are taught to be sexy."
Girls
"How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective."
Perspective
"If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect."
Business
"In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time."
Time
"I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me."
Gender
"When I was pregnant, I felt filled with life, and I felt really happy. I ate well, and I slept well. I felt much more useful than I'd ever felt before."
Life
"My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself."
Sex
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