"Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same -- and most mothers kiss and scold together."

Buck, Pearl S. on mothers
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"I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhood and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met."

Duras, Marguerite on mothers
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"Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on mothers   

"The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint."

Fenton, James on mothers
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"A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it."

Howells, William Dean on mothers
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"The watchful mother tarries nigh, though sleep has closed her infants eyes."

Keble, John on mothers
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"Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother."

Lin Yu-tang on mothers
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"A mother's heart is always with her children."

Proverb on mothers
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"He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin."

Proverb, English on mothers
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"A mother understands what a child does not say."

Proverb, Jewish on mothers
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"God couldn't be everywhere, so he created mothers"

Proverb, Jewish on mothers
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"I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on self discovery
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"Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle."

Keller, Helen on tolerance
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"There's none so blind as they that won't see."

Swift, Jonathan on blindness   

"Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires."

Swift, Jonathan on friends and friendship   

"Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading."

Swift, Jonathan on argument   

"Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances."

Lowell, James Russell on discipline
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"We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine."

Moody, Dwight L. on light   

"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on imagination
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"When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on information   

"Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on language   

"Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on love
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"The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on power   

"Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on reason   

"In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on rejection
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"In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on story and story-telling   

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on books - reading
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"There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on vision   

"Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else. What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat... where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on translation   

"We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on women
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"Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on world   

"The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on abortion
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"As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round."

Hogan, Ben on joy
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"All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it."

Field, Eugene on joy   

"If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap."

Buck, Glen on joy   

"Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities."

Hill, Napoleon on failure
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"Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer."

Angelis, Barbara De on focus
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"You must remain focused on your journey to greatness."

Brown, Les on focus
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"Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thoughtful order."

Byron, Lord on focus
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"Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map."

Calloway, Wayne on focus