"I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton."

-- Ayelet Waldman

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“Jesus will meet me today in the person of someone in need-I must not miss him.”
“One day, you're 11 games, 12 games out, and the next day you're in first!”
“It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.”
“As we learn we always change, and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us.”
“The Prime Minister wins debate after debate and loses battle after battle. The country is beginning to say that he fights debates like a war and the war like a debate.”
“One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.”
“The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual. No such organization has the right to take money out of the pockets of state workers without their proper consent.”
“It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.”

Source : "Falling Free". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1988.

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