"If she'd spaced her children out and had eleven babies in eleven years, she would have been no better than her own mother and sisters: irresponsible, a welfare cheat, another bit of Sawdust Lane white trash. But as luck would have it, she'd had them all at once, and now she was, overnight, middle-class. And respectable."

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Source : Sheri Holman (2007). “The Mammoth Cheese”, p.89, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Sheri Holman

#Mother Quotes #Baby Quotes #Children Quotes

“It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.”
“I'm not in my element standing around in a bikini in front of strangers. I never stand up in a bikini, even at the swimming pool. I feel like a normal person when it comes to things like that. I'm like any other girl who doesn't want to show her bottom.”
“Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.”
“It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.”
“You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.”

Source : "Paul Keating Launches Book on Whitlam Dismissal". "The World Today", www.abc.net.au. November 09, 2005.
“Happiness is such an incredible advantage in our life. When the human brain is positive, our intelligence rises, we stop diverting resources to think about anxiety.”

Source : Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Better stupid and safe that smart and dead.”
“When I don't know something, I surround myself with people I can trust to teach me.”

Source : "Beloved teen Sam Berns dies at 17 after suffering from rare disease" by Greg Botelho, www.cnn.com. January 12, 2014.

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