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		Think about how often—before cell phones, before any kind of caller ID—you answered the landline as a child and had to have an exchange, however brief, with aunts or uncles or family friends. Even if it was that five-second check-in, How are you doing, how is school, is your mom around—it meant periodic real-time vocal contact with an extended community, which, through repetition, it reinforced.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ben Lerner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				V. S. Naipaul 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sally Phillips 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fran Lebowitz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Since my father was a superstar, without me knowing it, I became a child star, as my father's entire fan base liked me, and I can't thank my father enough for this, as it was so effortless. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mahesh Babu 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fanny Crosby 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Boats are something I am very, very passionate about; cars are something I grew up with... I used to race cars since I was a child. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gautam Singhania 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
		
	
	
	
	
		What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Qandeel Baloch 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Flowers are happy things. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				P. G. Wodehouse 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was among one of the first entrepreneurs to start building their own private enterprise when Perestroika began in Russia and the state initiated its first market-oriented reforms. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yelena Baturina 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Before you can express love, you must find love. You must know love within yourself before you can give it to another. When you recognize or experience the truth about yourself you automatically feel love, because love is a quality of your true consciousness and true ideas. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tae Yun Kim 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mahalia Jackson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Think about how often—before cell phones, before any kind of caller ID—you answered the landline as a child and had to have an exchange, however brief, with aunts or uncles or family friends. Even if it was that five-second check-in, How are you doing, how is school, is your mom around—it meant periodic real-time vocal contact with an extended community, which, through repetition, it reinforced. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ben Lerner