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"I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion."
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"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."
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"It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think."
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"Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents' foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood."
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"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."
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"There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it."
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"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin."
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"An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer."
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"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."
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"My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled."
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"Heaven set couples for babies' birth."
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"I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City."
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"I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion."
Family
"Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself."
Opinion
"We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer."
Family
"And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer."
Family
"Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?"
Friendship
"I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary."
Opinion
"Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998."
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"You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy."
Diplomacy
"After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past."
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