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"Kasturi was in the seventh month of gestating Coinman-a high-attention and high-priority stage of a pregnancy-a time that requires utmost care in bringing one life safely to the world without losing the other."
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"Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark."
"Motherhood, true motherhood, was what went on when no one else could see."
"Kasturi was in the seventh month of gestating Coinman-a high-attention and high-priority stage of a pregnancy-a time that requires utmost care in bringing one life safely to the world without losing the other."
"I'll show up at every classroom open house and teacher conference, ' she said, now in a voice that was almost frightening in its intensity. 'I'll bake brownies. My child will have new clothes. Her shoes will fit. She'll get her shots, and she'll get her braces. We'll start a college fund next week. I'll tell her I love her every damn day.'If that wasn't a great plan for being a good mother, I couldn't imagine what a better one could be."
"A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life."
"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."
"I thank my mother (Ma, you're only second cause you got the dedication), who used to make me write essays whenever I got into trouble, explaining exactly what I'd done and why I'd done it."
"When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the breast it suckles, as though this new person truly mirrors the flesh from which it sprang."
"As a Christian, your godly life and your godly mothering sends its shimmering wake throughout all eternity."
"Being a mother is not about 'birthing a child into the world.' Rather, it is about repeatedly 'birthing into the child' a steady sense of their inestimable worth, a prized understanding of their authentic self, a conviction that the impossible is largely the stuff of myth, and an utterly unwavering belief that cold actions of men never represent the warm heart of God. It is the relentless act of birthing these things into the innermost soul of a thirsty child that makes a woman a mother."
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"People say there are thousands of options we have in life. I say we have only two: we can either be happy or be unhappy."
"As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words."
"A good joke doesn't necessarily need appreciation from others. One can freely laugh at one's own deserving jokes."
"One needs to pursue some sort of a creative interest in order to keep life from eating us alive."
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