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"My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild."
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"If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times!"
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"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."
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"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."
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"They play in the Meadow. The dancing girl with the dark hair and blue eyes. The boy with blond curls and gray eyes, struggling to keep up with her on his chubby toddler legs. It took five, ten, fifteen years for me to agree. But Peeta wanted them so badly. When I first felt her stirring inside of me, I was consumed with a terror that felt as old as life itself. Only the joy of holding her in my arms could tame it."
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"It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think."
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"A good mother... when you CRY, she CARRIES you; when you are HUNGRY, she will HURRY to feed you; when you are about to SLEEP, she SINGS for you! Long live good mothers! Thank you mama!"
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"Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material."
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"Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents' foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood."
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"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."
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"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."
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"I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette."
Heart
"I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me."
Creativity
"I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order."
Crime
"The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!"
Family
"I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history."
History
"The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous."
Ethics
"I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book."
Change
"My mother was a politician in my formative years."
Family
"Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema."
Cinema
"I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't."
War
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