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"I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady."
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"My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one."

"A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother."

"My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother."

"That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions."

"I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before."
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"What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?"

"Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death."

"There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed."

"Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?"

"He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist."

"I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things."
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