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Gloria Swanson

"My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing."

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"My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing."

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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."

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

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"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."

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"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."

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

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"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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"My mother taught me to read."

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"I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course."

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Akiroq Brost

"So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves."

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"My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive."

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"My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell."
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"When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life."
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