"How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that's made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead ... that's the miracle."

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Source : Ami Mckay (2006). “The Birth House: A Novel”, William Morrow

Ami McKay

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Caring Quotes

“Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny.”
“Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science.”
“Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.”

Source : James Bridie, Association for Scottish Literary Studies (2007). “The devil to stage: five plays”, Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS)
“Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.”
“The system isn't working for most people and never has worked for most women.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
“A woman is as young as her knees.”
“You never have a friend all figured out. Just when you think you know what makes them tick, they tock.”
“A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority.”

Source : Barry Hughart (2011). “The Story of the Stone”, p.73, Spectra

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