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Catherine Helen Spence

"I look back to a happy childhood."

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Akiroq Brost

"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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"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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Akiroq Brost

"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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Akiroq Brost

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

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"There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father."

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Akiroq Brost

"Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home."

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"I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay off. You put pressure on interest rates. You put at risk your economy. That's the case in Britain. We're not a reserve currency, so we need to get on and deal with this issue."

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"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."

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Catherine Helen Spence
"I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family."

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Catherine Helen Spence
"I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export."

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Catherine Helen Spence
"Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me."

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Catherine Helen Spence
"The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded."

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Catherine Helen Spence
"Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible."

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Catherine Helen Spence
"I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times."

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Catherine Helen Spence
"My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire."

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Catherine Helen Spence
"I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both."

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Catherine Helen Spence
"I look back to a happy childhood."

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

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