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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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive."
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"I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford."

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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."

"In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it."
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