"A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at."

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Source : "The Divine Sisterhood of Jada Pinkett Smith". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.redbookmag.com. June 11, 2013.

Bette Midler

#Mother Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #People Quotes

“My features are completely ethnic.”
“People fall into patterns at fast speeds, when really, to have a clear musical thought - the kind of musical thought that makes a melody work - our brains just can't think that fast. At a certain point, you're going on automatic.”
“He who is going to be a magician will recognize that life is dependent on the work of the elements in the various planes and spheres. It is to be seen in great and in small things, in the microcosm as well as in the macrocosm, temporarily and eternally, everywhere there are powers in action.”
“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
“I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has behind him agesof education, dominion, civilization, and Christianity, if he stands opposed to the passage of a national education bill, whose purpose is to secure education to the children of those who were born under the shadow of institutions which made it a crime to read.”
“One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow growth and even demand it in that time of life we call maturity but too often enter it with a childish faith that what we learned in youth is sustenance enough for the years when most men are mentally famished but won't admit itâ€”or when they are apt to curb their hunger with the sops of complacency, security, and the assurance of death.”
“All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?”
“As you become more successful, the gender barrier disappears. The credibility challenges you have during your growing up years starts disappearing when you start demonstrating success.”

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