"On one thing professionals and amateurs agree: mothers can't win."

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Source : Margaret Drabble (2013). “The Middle Ground”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Margaret Drabble

#Mother Quotes #Winning Quotes

“Pay attention to the girl, instead of myself. A bunch of people [told me that]. It's terrible. I'm very into myself, so people are always like, "Pay attention to the other person. Don't ever separate yourself." It's a good lesson. I'm learning. I'm doing good.”
“Twitter does have an effect on everything - things you put out there, they are out there for good.”
“People stood on their chairs, cheering and waving. And it was all for me! Waves of love flooded the stage and washed over me. I started to cry. The sweetness of such a moment is impossible to describe. One is both lover and beloved. ... I'd found the one true, enduring romance of my life.”
“Rummy is one of the easiest of all card games to learn. More people understand the rules of Rummy than of any other card game.”

Source : ALBERT H. MOREHEAD (1950). “FUN WITH GAMES OF RUMMY”
“Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.”
“If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater.”
“Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.”
“The dog becomes the repository of those model human properties that we have cynically ceased to find among humans. Where today can we find the full panoply of William Bennett's Book of Virtues-from Courage and Responsibility to Loyalty and Family Values-but in Lassie and Beethoven and Millie and Checkers and Spot?”

Source : Marjorie Garber (1997). “DOG LOVE”, Touchstone

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