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"My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities."
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"My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much."
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"I haven't actually spoken to my parents since the hurricane."
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"I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training."
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"For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows."
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"My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician."
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"I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking."
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"When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them."
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"I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal."
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"My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind."
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"As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing."
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"I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf."
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"Years ago women of my size were considered royalty."
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"Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it."
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"I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to."
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"I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice."
People
"One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people."
People
"One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other."
Father
"My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities."
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"Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world."
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"I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people."
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