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"I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood."
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"It lasted just a moment, whatever that is. One held breath? An ant's afternoon? It was brief, I can promise that much, for although it's been many years now since my children ruled my life, a mother recalls the measure of the silences."
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"She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink."
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"I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know."
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"I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is completely different. You want your child to have more than you ever did. You want to build a fire underneath her and watch her soar. It's bigger than words."
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"What a mother wants is to hold her babies when they're small and to be held by them once they've grown tall. It's empty arms a mother dreads."
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"A mother is a dealer of hope."
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"Suddenly you realize that you are the mother of the Universe, eager to protect, transform and care every soul of the world."
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"Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers."
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"Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress."
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"Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do even though it takes a lot."
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"They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly."
Money
"When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people."
People
"I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it Baltimore?"
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"I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood."
Motherhood
"How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions."
People
"If you really think you're right, you should tell it."
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"There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life."
Life
"Honesty is all you need."
Honesty
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