"Almost everyone believes that at some level birthmothers make a choice to give their babies away. ...Adoption is rarely about mothers' choices; it is, instead, about the abject choicelessness of some resourceless women."

-- Rickie Solinger

#Mother Quotes #Baby Quotes #Believe Quotes

“My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then the book would be hidden inside some pocket or other and as soon as whatever it was got under way I'd be found in a corner. That was who I was...that was what I did. I was the kid with the book.”
“It is not work that kills; but no work and overwork.”
“Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.”
“I face my demons and embrace my fate.”

Source : Lynda Bellingham (2014). “Lost and Found: My Story”, p.317, Random House
“It's very hard to describe your own style. And I'm young, so I'm still experimenting. But I think it's quite British and very much about individuality.”
“Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried. There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.”
“How can you expect someone to get a good day's work if they are interrupted all day?”
“Friends accept you the way you are.”

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