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"I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in."
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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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"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 tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness."
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"I don't really think they saw anything in me, except the fact that I was interested in it. Some of the kids would miss a week here and miss a week there, I think they could see that I really enjoyed it."
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"I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal."
Gold
"I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don't remember reading."
Love
"In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction."
Direction
"It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it."
Parenting
"I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards."
People
"They're still considered Olympic eligibles, so there's never an issue whether they're going to turn pro or not. When they get to that level, money is never an issue. They make so much money now."
Money
"It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond."
Home
"I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in."
Family
"I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world."
Experience
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