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"One of the nicest things you can do to kick-start your children's day is to tell them honestly they look nice as they head out the door. This easy, five-second exchange says to your child: 'I see you; I notice you; I love you.'"
"Only when you are grown up, perhaps only when you have children yourself, do you fully understand that your own parents had a full and intricate existence before you were born."
"Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child."
"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived lives of the parents."
"I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body."
"After having been standing by the gate of the garden for a long time, Siddhartha realised that his desire was foolish, which had made him go up to this place, that he could not help his son, that he was not allowed to cling him. Deeply, he felt the love for the run-away in his heart, like a wound, and he felt at the same time that this wound had not been given to him in order to turn the knife in it, that it had to become a blossom and had to shine."
Explore more quotes by Dorothy Hamill
"I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own."
"There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won."
"My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could."
"I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don't remember reading."
"I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in."
"My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income."
"I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards."
"Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on."
"In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction."
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