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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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"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother."

"Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial."

"I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to."
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"I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us - and the feeling of ritual the classes had."


"My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world."


"Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that."


"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."


"Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would."


"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."
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