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"Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby."
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"It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race."
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"I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle."
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"I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child."
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"When looking at the evidence of feeding on large prey, you can see every size tooth from hatchling to adult in one spot. The babies may have been fed in the nest until they were full grown, like in eagles and hawks."
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"We're all born bald, baby."
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"I talk in that baby talk voice when I'm on TV, it's a put on."
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"We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves."
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"My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer."
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"I feel it's like being a kid and dressing up, because that's what Baby Jane is."
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"I was always musical - yelling when I was a baby, singing into a brush and singing in the shower."
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"I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a pool of water, and she could dive down into the center of the world."
Water
"I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life."
Life
"In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too."
Success
"I know it sounds crazy, but I have had far more connection with my parents after their deaths."
Connection
"You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian."
Family
"Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about."
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"People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing."
People
"It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now."
Time
"Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church."
Father
"After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away."
Money
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