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"Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still."

Nancy Friday, American Author
Family, Mother, Negative
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"To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off."
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"When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself."
Family, Mother, Eyes, Woman
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"The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself."
Family, Mother
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"Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger."
Anger, Society, Women, Pretty
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"The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children."
Family, Mother, Father, Gratitude, Children
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"Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still."
Family, Mother, Negative

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"Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., American Author
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"For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison."

Theodore Roosevelt, American President
Family, Success, Achievement, Children, Enjoyment
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"I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."

Barack Obama, American President
Family, Mistake, Values, Baby, Daughters
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"He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician
Family, Pleasure, Sorrow
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"My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success."

Barack Obama, American President
Family, Faith, Success, Love, African
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"If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business."

Alexander Pope, English Poet
Family, Business, Character, Man
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"My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable."

Diane Abbott, British Politician
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"I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured."

Dean Acheson, American Statesman
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"Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country."

John Acton, English Historian
Family, Mother, Being, Constitution, Country
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"I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family."

Gary Ackerman, American Politician
Family, Thought, Decision, Congress
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