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Carol Ann Duffy

"I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister."

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Amber Hurdle

"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

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Amber Hurdle

"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."

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Amber Hurdle

"There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it."

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Amber Hurdle

"Torn clothes are funny - until your dad gets fired."

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Amber Hurdle

"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin."

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Amber Hurdle

"An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer."

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Amber Hurdle

"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."

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Carol Ann Duffy
"I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales."

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Carol Ann Duffy
"My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy."

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Carol Ann Duffy
"When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light."

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Carol Ann Duffy
"It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal."

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Carol Ann Duffy
"Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief."

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Carol Ann Duffy
"Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings."

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Carol Ann Duffy
"Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning."

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Carol Ann Duffy
"I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister."

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Carol Ann Duffy
"Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries."

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Carol Ann Duffy
"Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have."

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