"If work is part of your identity, think very carefully before you give it up. Giving it up won't make you a better mother; it will make you less of the person you are; and that will make you less of a mother."

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Source : Jean Marzollo (1991). “Your Maternity Leave”, Poseidon Press

Jean Marzollo

#Mother Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes

“When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?”
“Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.”
“They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.”
“Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love”
“I love being a student, if I could, I'd stay in school forever.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.”
“It is often assumed that science starts from facts and eschews counter-factual theories. Nothing could be further from the truth. What is one of the basic assumptions of the scientific world-view? That the variety of events that surrounds us is held together by a deeper unity.”
“Even at the age of eight she would fall asleep by pressing one hand into the other and making believe she was holding the hand of the man whom she loved, the man of her life. So if in her sleep she pressed Tomas hand with such tenacity, we can understand why: she had been training since childhood.”

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