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		I had become so insulated in my world as a mother that I didn't know how to pick up the phone and call anybody to put myself out there. I don't live my life anymore that way.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Peggy Lipton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		For the spouse of someone in the service, you are your own provider, your own lover, you own best friend while that person's gone - the mother and father if you have kids.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jessy Schram
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		One of the hazards of making a major discovery early in your career is the burden of expectation, not helped in my case by becoming a wife and mother soon afterwards. I'm sure some people think it was a flash in the pan.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jocelyn Bell Burnell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My mother grew up strong. She was a charismatic leader among her peers, staging plays, organizing projects, raising money for charity; she was fiercely protective of her younger brother, with whom she shared a passion for jazz and rock and roll.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Anand Giridharadas
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Clearly, there are a thousand and one scenarios for how someone can slip through the cracks. I'll walk down the street and see a homeless person, and I'll want to stop them and say, How did this happen? Where's your mother? Are you physically ill? Mentally ill?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Baldwin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		At the age of six, I declared that I wanted to be an astronaut. My mother thought that was just fine, as it would encourage me to learn science, and besides, there really was no chance I would ever actually become an astronaut.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John M. Grunsfeld
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Here is the real domino theory: Gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Anna Quindlen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My mother had naturally spiced the pudding with sixpences and threepenny bits, called zacs and trays respectively. Grandpa had collected one of these in the oesophagus. He gave a protracted, strangled gurgle which for a long time we all took to be the beginning of some anecdote.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Clive James
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up the stairs he would carry me and I knew for sure I was loved.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Luther Vandross
			
			
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		I was being brought up on peasant stories; my mother came from Europe and she'd been a peasant and that was the area where the Frankensteins and the Draculas came from and it was entertainment for the people. Nobody had TV, and that was the way peasants would entertain themselves, by telling these stories.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jack Kirby
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My last name is Wellsley, but a lot of people say it's Lowendowski, which is my mother's last name, and I had it changed to my father's when I was 18.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Cory Wells
			
			
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		I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It's their children I love.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Enid Blyton