"When my kids were in preschool, I was part of a carpooling group. One mother sometimes showed up with bruises on her body. She always had an excuse. Then one morning, she didn't show up. Later, I learned she'd fled a violent marriage. I've always thought, If only I'd known, maybe I could have helped."

-- Patty Murray

#Mother Quotes #Morning Quotes #Kids Quotes

“You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.”
“What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper, write it in the present tense. You might begin by writing, 'I am so happy and grateful now that...' and then explain how you want your life to be in every area.”
“A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.”
“... most Southerners of my parents' era were raised to feel that it wasn't respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Southerners had lost everything in defense of the South, and sufficient time hadn't elapsed for respectable rebuilding of financial security in a war- impoverished region.”

Source : Sarah-Patton Boyle, Jennifer Lynn Ritterhouse (1962). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition”, p.6, University of Virginia Press
“Liberty means more to me than life itself.”
“I am single and happy.”
“The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.”
“Poetry, in the entire course of its development, has always been trying to capture meanings and problems which are still obscure and dormant. Poetry tries to awaken them with a kiss, wherever they may be: in the air, in things, in human beings.”

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