"It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring."

-- Jamaica Kincaid

#Mother Quotes #Daughter Quotes #Children Quotes

“I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.”
“That is a Nazi expression. The Nazis called Germans who defended Jewish rights self-hating Germans.”

Source : "Personality: Dr. Israel Shahak" by Richard H. Curtiss", the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, www.wrmea.org. June 1989.
“Look at me, dancing my little dance for a few moments against the background of eternity.”
“Awards don't really mean much.”
“Modeling is the world that I feel most welcome in.”
“A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect on its price in the home market.”
“When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.”
“Not only does he hate me, and want to kill me, he no longer believes I'm human. It was less painful being strangled.”

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