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"A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in."
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"My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing."
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"Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?"
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"I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers."
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"My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive."
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"I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock."
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"My mother taught me to read."
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"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."
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"My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping."
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"My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised."
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"Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children."
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"You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest."
Interest
"Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over."
Miracles
"The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed."
Succeed
"That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously."
Benefit
"My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!"
Valor
"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you."
Gardening
"Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature."
Nature
"For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!"
Friendship
"Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics."
Politics
"Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day."
Day
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