"I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations."

-- Paula Radcliffe

#Mother Quotes #Nice Quotes #Surprise Quotes

“People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.”
“I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!”
“People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I have the heart of a small child - I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
“A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy”
“A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it's all you've got, unless you're brilliant and can write totally in the now.”
“War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death.”
“For years now I have run a kitchen-sink punk salon in my house, called Salon du Gay. In the early days, people would pay for a riot grrrl bob or a passable bleach job with a mixtape, $3 or a selection of baked goods - whichever they could afford. More recently though, with Gossip doing well, I've performed these punk hair transformations for free.”

Source : "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2008.
“Every day, I wake up, and the first thing I think of is my kids.”

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