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Isobelle Carmody

"Here's the thing. I hate kids. Always have. I mean, I know the job of the race, biologically speaking, is to achieve immortality through reproduction, but the idea of getting impregnated and blowing up like a balloon as I serve as a carrier and service unit for this other person who will eventually burst out of me in the most terrifying way imaginable, then carry on using me one way or another for the rest of my life, is right up there with throwing myself off the top of a twenty-story building. If I have a biological clock, it is digital and does not tick."

-- Isobelle Carmody

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“there are times when the one thing you haven't counts more than all the riches that may be yours.”
“I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.”
“Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five miles a day and cede the cardiovascular effects to someone else, no one can trust for us.”

Source : Sue Halpern (2011). “Migrations to Solitude”, p.144, Vintage
“I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.”

Source : "Q&A with Kelly Corrigan on moms, dads, glitter and glue". Interview with Bob Minzesheimer, www.usatoday.com. February 5, 2014.
“I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist.”
“My husband used to shout at my mother, 'What is wrong with your daughter? I'm married to a man.'”
“I got a girl named Bony Maronie, she's as skinny as a stick of macaroni.”
“Why must I cling to the customs and practices of a particular country forever, just because I happened to be born there? What does it matter if its distinctiveness is lost? Need we be so attached to it? What's the harm if everyone on earth shares the same thoughts and feelings, if they stand under a single banner of laws and regulations? What if we can't be recognized as Indians any more? Where's the harm in that? No one can object if we declare ourselves to be citizens of the world. Is that any less glorious?”

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