"I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long."

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"I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long."

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

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Family, Gratitude, Life, Joy

"My mother is my doctorCaring for me when am illI will love her forever tillWe are gone to our creator!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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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."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Family, Mother, Listening, Wisdom, Perspective

"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!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Children can see the beatitudes in nature."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

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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."

Alice Walker, American Author

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"The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience."

Experience

"There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us."

Challenge

"I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out."

Day

"Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere."

People

"There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life."

Life

"There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one."

Thought

"Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic."

Sea

"There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography."

Autobiography

"I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all."

Mind

"When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many."

Feet