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Martha Reeves

"A large family makes you accept sharing your parents."

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"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

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"Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit."

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"If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times!"

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"You don't build a family by tearing down another one."

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"It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are."

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"Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels."

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"Could it be? Samantha Kingston? Home? On a Friday? I roll my eyes. "I don't know. Did you do a lot of acid in the sixties? Could be a flashback. "I was two years old in 1960. I came too late for the party. He leans down and pecks me on the head. I pull away out of habit. "And I'm not even going to ask how you know about acid flashbacks. "What's an acid flashback? Izzy crows. "Nothing, my dad and I say at the same time, and he smiles at me."

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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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"...workplace dynamics are no less complicated or unexpectedly intense than family relations, with only the added difficulty that whereas families are at least well-recognised and sanctioned loci for hysteria reminiscent of scenes from Medea, office life typically proceeds behind a mask of shallow cheerfulness, leaving workers grievously unprepared to handle the fury and sadness continually aroused by their colleagues."

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"You will never realize how precious a baby is until she keeps you awake through the whole night."

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