"I was suppose to write a book about being a mom, to organize my thoughts into chapters and figure out a structure to hang them on, to make a lasting point, but somehow I decided to go ahead and become a mother instead."

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Source : Jeanne Marie Laskas (2009). “Growing Girls: The Mother of All Adventures”, p.21, Bantam

Jeanne Marie Laskas

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“Politics is about the control of a limited number of resources by a limited number of people who think that number is too many”
“The word reality frightens me.”
“The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.”

Source : Ernest Hamlin Abbott, Lyman Abbott, Francis Rufus Bellamy, Hamilton Wright Mabie (1901). “The Outlook”
“I do seem to favor a deathbed confession as the occasion for my dramatic monologues.”
“I think the performances that really communicate with me are the ones where I don't feel like I'm watching someone and thinking: "They're doing some really good acting." It's when I'm literally completely consumed by the story-telling and the actor or actress is evoking something in me. I think that's so powerful and cinema and TV has so much power.”

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“There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.”
“I think I was nervous enough, even at 3:00 a.m., that you could hear my heart beating over the microphone.”
“News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.”

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