"What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect."

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Source : Barbara Delinsky (2011). “Escape”, p.99, Anchor

Barbara Delinsky

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“I think it's miraculous that anybody survives themselves.”
“Every morning is good news, every child that is born is good news, every just man is good news, every singer is good news, because every singer is one less soldier.”
“Scientists have determined that the most irritating sound to the human ear is the sound of a knife cutting a glass bottle. And the second-worst sound is a fork scratching a glass bottle. Evidently they did all their research at the Picnic for Morons.”
“A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.”
“It's hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because one's working here and one's working there, or one's staying at home and one's off someplace else.”
“The Iranians know that if they develop nuclear weapons, they will be in tremendous jeopardy from military capabilities of their neighbors and of the United States. I am not predicting what will happen in 2013, but I do think it is a crucial year. I hope we can make it clear to the Iranians that we do not object to them having peaceful use of nuclear power. But when they enrich Uranium to a 20 percent level, people think they are going for the bomb. Their uranium enrichment program is a real danger.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I think I’ll play two years more, if my own body lets me do that... I still think my best tennis is still to come.”
“No greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility, to draw the ignorant within the orbit of reason, and to fill with reverence for divinity the godless and the ungodly.”

Source : Richard Hakluyt (1935). “The Original Writings & Correspondence of the Two Richard Hakluyts”

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