"To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons."

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Source : Marilyn French (2013). “Her Mother's Daughter: A Novel”, p.1070, Open Road Media

Marilyn French

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“I was awful at science at school, as a subject, because I didn't have the discipline. But, I was awful at music, as well, and I loved music.”

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“I was very cheap - that's the way I'd always worked.”
“I work with a lot of spiritual people. Now, when I say spiritual people, I not only work with priests, rabbis, and ministers - there's a tremendous amount of people, shamans, medicine men. It depends on the circumstances, what I'm tying in with that I find to be extremely important to do some type of spiritual work over the items before they are brought into the museum.”

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“When were we the most egalitarian country in the world? When we had the Glass/Steagal Act, which prevented the banks from becoming the criminal operations that they've become.”
“You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.”
“It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.”
“You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.”
“The zeal of atheists is the most admirable thing about them.”

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