"I look back to a happy childhood."

Catherine Helen Spence, Australian Author

Family, Childhood

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"Big Brother is watching you."

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"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."

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"Blessed is the womb that born you."

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"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."

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"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."

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"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

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"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."

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"Children are angels."

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"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."

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"South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections."

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"My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire."

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"Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive."

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"I look back to a happy childhood."

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"A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea."

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