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

"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother."

"A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for."

"When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent."

"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin."

"My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that."
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"I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again."

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present."

"A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp."

"She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven."
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