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“If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.”

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Author:Kevin O'Leary

“One of my mother's friends said to me, 'Your ex-boyfriends didn't stand a chance with you and your mother.' And I think I probably was unfair to them because she was the first person and the last person I called about every single thing. Sorry, ex-boyfriends.”

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Author:Lily Rabe

“My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.”

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Author:Marat Safin

“On Mother's Day: It's just a rip-off, to tell the truth, a chance to sell my perfume and other things that ladies like.”

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Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death.”

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Author:Simone Weil

“I appreciate your giving my book -- and in no small way, me -- a chance. To thank you, I really wanted to acknowledge all of you in the book. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough room for each name. So I've put in a code name that stands for all of you reading this book. The name is 'Mom.' It will be our little secret. So when you see 'Mom' in the acknowledgments, you'll know I'm really talking about you. And don't let my mother try to tell you otherwise.”

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Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“I feel sorry for people of good heart who have never had a chance to learn the realities of Native American everything - not just our history but the sweetness and the beauty and the reasons why were so close to Mother Earth.”

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Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie

“"But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a mother's love, or the comfort of a home; that ill-usage and blows, or the want of bread, may have driven him to herd with men who have forced him to guilt. Aunt, dear aunt, for mercy's sake, think of this, before you let them drag this sick child to a prison, which in any case must be the grave of all his chances of amendment."”

Source: The Charles Dickens Collection Volume One: Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and Bleak House

“Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie--could not tell a lie! But he never had any chance. It might have been different if he had belonged to the Washington Newspaper Correspondents' Club”

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Book:Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

Source: Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

“Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of mothers and teachers and gives them the ultimate responsibility for the child's life chances.”

Source: Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools

“Fantasy has a better chance of lasting than a lot of other things. The Hobbit and the Narnia books, they seem to get handed down father to son, mother to daughter. Because they're set in a fantasy world, they can remain relevant.”

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Author:Stephen King

“I have quite a lot of fans in Holland because that is where my mother is from, in fact I have a fan club there, and the fans don't always get the chance to see us drive the cars because getting to races across Europe isn't always possible for them.”

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Author:Nelson Piquet

“I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and I have had a better chance.”

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Author:Kirk Douglas

“You can imagine an already unstable mind that's completely entitled and has been given anything they wanted, throughout their whole life, and lived in a bubble with a domineering, in a very quietly manipulating way, mother, that child mentality never gets a chance to mature and discover its own limitations. It just runs rampant.”

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Author:Finn Wittrock