"No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasnâ€™t."

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Elizabeth Berg

#Mother Quotes #Wish Quotes #Want Quotes

“When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.”
“Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.”
“That one thing you do give up when you get married is that magic moment of meeting someone, and the sparks and the spontaneity.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Eventually the man comes to see that he has a mind, and that his mind is like a fist, wrapped tightly around a single thought. He cannot open the fist to look at the thought, for fear that it will fly away, but he knows that it is very important and that he must hang on to it, no matter what the cost.”

Source : Ben Loory (2011). “Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day”, p.130, Penguin
“Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning.”
“The size of your key ring is the size of your headaches. Si Redd once told me, "Every time you buy something you sell a piece of yourself." Why? Because you have to maintain it, to insure it, to worry about it. So the more you buy, the more you sell a piece of yourself and pretty soon you get so thin you can't do anything. So get rid of all those things and get back to the basics. Everybody has his own basics: it's what he enjoys. Si Redd told me I would "arrive" when I got down to one key. Still working on that!”
“My view is that the time has come for the international community to act on Zimbabwe in the way that it did in Bosnia. I do not think that we are going to get free and fair elections in Zimbabwe.”
“I know it is possible to win the Tour without taking anything.”

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