"I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are."

-- Ellen Page

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary.”
“Life has become unbearable ... Forgive me.”
“I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.”
“It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.”
“I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.”
“Do anything but love; or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship; never let him know how dear he is; flit like a bird before him; lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower; but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness.”
“A good writer sells out everybody he knows, sooner or later.”

Source : Alice McDermott (2013). “A Bigamist's Daughter”, p.82, A&C Black
“What motivates me is to be able to do what I love to do . . . fight”

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