"True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it."

Family, Father, Girlfriends, Man, Maturity

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"True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it."

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"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."

James Dobson, American Psychologist

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Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"Of course there are mothers,squeezing their breastsdry, pawning their bodies,shedding teeth for their children,or that's our fond belief.But remember - Hanseland Gretel were dumped in the forestbecause their parents were starving."

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"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off.""

Stephen King, American Author

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"There is only one mother in this world who is the best one, the one that every kid has got."

Vikrmn, Indian Author

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"We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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Mark Twain, American Author

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"To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense."

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"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names."

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"You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination."

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