"You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you"

Mother, Motherhood, Home, Love, Attachment

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"You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you"

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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."

Frank Pittman, American Psychiatrist

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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."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."

Oprah Winfrey, American Entertainer

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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."

Ginger Rogers, American Actress

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"Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?"

Kristin Cashore, American Author

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"My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?"

Loni Anderson, American Actress

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"I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out."

Linda Blair, American Actress

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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."

Thurgood Marshall, American Judge

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"My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized."

Martin Short, American Actor

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"I hadn't understood at the time. If sinners were so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why.Without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my pastwas my life."

Identity

"The moon rose, squatting in the strained blue."

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"Let me tell you a few things about regret, my darling. There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here. Should you regret the whole chain, and the air in between, or each link separately?"

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"A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They're all parts of yourself."

Order

"Her hatred glittered irresistibly. I could see it, the jewel, it was sapphire, it was the cold lakes of Norway."

Emotion

"A person didn't need to be beautiful, they just needed to be loved. But I couldn't help wanting it. If that was the way I could be loved, to be beautiful, I'd take it"

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"My mother once wrote a poem about rivers. They were women, she wrote. Starting out small girls, tiny streams decorated with wildflowers. They were torrents, gouging paths through sheer granite, flinging themselves off cliffs, fearless and irresistible. Later, they grew fat servicable, broad slow curves carrying commerce and sewage, but in their unconscious depths catfish gorged, grew the size of barges, and in the hundred - year storms, they rose up, forgetting the promises they made, the wedding vows, and drowned everything for miles around. Finally they gave out, birth - emptied, malarial, into a fan of swamps that met the ocean."

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"Don't turn over rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them."

Fear

"What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?"

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"What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people to use and admire, or envy, despise. To nail their dreams onto like a picture hanger on a blank wall. And so many girls saying, use me, dream me."

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