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"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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"A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother."
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"People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you."
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"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother."
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"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."
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"My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months."
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"A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for."
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"When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent."
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"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin."
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"My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that."
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"My mother taught me to read."
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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."
Work
"Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."
Life
"Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life."
Life
"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"
Woman
"Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world."
Success
"Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression."
Woman
"No one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone."
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"I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war."
War
"The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are."
Being
"Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little."
Politics
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