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Author:Ann Romney

“When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree. When my mother explained it, I kept after her: What are you saying? What do you mean? I couldn't believe it. It was astonishing. It was like--here's the man who makes all the trees. Then I wanted to be a writer, because, I suppose, it seemed the closest thing to being God.”

People Men Believe Mean Littles Book Facts Wanted Mother Five Tree He Man Six Manifestation Closest Astonishing

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“When I was a kid, the punishment I disliked the most was writing sentences. My mother loved to make me record my transgressions--always a minimum of five hundred times--and she even bought special spiral notebooks for me to fill up.... No matter how many notebooks I went through, there was always another one waiting in the kitchen drawer.”

Writing Matter Kids Mother Waiting Records Five Special Hundred Sentences Punishment Kitchen Minimum Notebook Drawers Spirals Transgression

Book:Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life

Source: Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life

“I always knew I wanted to be a performer, and my mother started taking me to dance classes when I was five. My mother is a teacher, my father works at an insurance company. When I said I wanted to be a performer, people went, "Yeah, right." You don't do that where I come from.”

People Said Wanted Mother Father Company Class Five Teacher Yeah Performers Insurance Companies Dance Class

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“I don't reject the concept of preemptive war. I'm a mother of five. I have five grandchildren. And I always say: Think of a lioness. Think of a mother bear. You come anywhere near our cubs, you're dead. And so, in terms of any threat to our country, people have to know we'll be there to preemptively strike. But what the president [Bush] did was, on the basis of no real intelligence for an imminent threat to our country, chose to go into a war for reasons that are still unknown to us.”

“In order to provide the German housewife, above all mothers of many children...with tangible relief from her burdens, the Fuhrer has commissioned me to bring into the Reich from the eastern territories some four to five hundred thousand select, healthy, and strong girls.”

Children Mother Order Girl Strong Five Four Healthy Thousand Hundred Burden Relief Territory Eastern Select Tangible Housewife Strong Girl

Author:Fritz Sauckel

“My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.”

Years Mother Five Five Years

Author:Lillian Hellman

“My first notebook was a Big Five tablet, given to me [at age five] by my mother with the sensible suggestion that I stop whining and learn to amuse myself by writing down my thoughts.”

Writing Firsts Bigs Age Mother Given Five Sensible Suggestions My Thoughts Notebook Whining Tablets Stop Whining

Book:We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction

Source: We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction

“My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of.”

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“my mother always found me out. Always. She's been dead for thirty-five years, but I have this feeling that even now she's watching.”

Years Feelings Mother Found Five Thirty Five Years

Author:Natalie Babbitt

“My mother is a Muslim - she walks five steps behind my father. She doesn't have to. He just looks better from behind.”

Looks Mother Father Walks Behinds Steps Five

Author:Shazia Mirza

“I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.”

Years Moving Mother Father Forget Five Pieces Style Kings Chess Five Years Mates Hunting Trainers Five Year Olds Playing Chess

Author:Garry Kasparov

“Normally an infant learns to use his mother as a "beacon of orientation" during the first five months of life. The mother's presence is like a fixed light that gives the child the security to move out safely to explore the world and then return safely to harbor.”

World Giving Firsts Children Use Light Moving Mother Five Security Months Return Fixed Infant Harbors Orientation Beacons

Book:Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

Source: Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

“Did I ever tell my constituents that if they liked their plan they could keep it? I would have if I'd ever met anybody who liked his or her plan. But that was not my experience.”

“As I grew up I got cynical. I'd see Mother enthusiastic and involved with charlatans. Numerologists and astrologists who charged five hundred dollars for a 'reading' which was so vague you could twist the meaning any way you wanted.”

Way Wanted Mother Reading Five Grew Involved Grew Up Hundred Dollars Cynical Vague Twists Enthusiastic Charlatans

Book:Green Darkness

Source: Green Darkness

“My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.”

Years Different Mother Father Parent Religious Christianity Five Teacher Thirty Five Years Traveled Nigeria Evangelists

Author:Chinua Achebe

“Four- and five-year-olds' play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their momand pop roles in ultraconventional style. We've seen little girls whose mothers are doctors absolutely refuse to take the doctors' parts in their play, insisting that "only boys can be doctors," against all reason. Girls do more washing and drying of clothes, dishes, and babies than they've ever seen their own mothers do, and they turn their play husbands into TV-watching drones who do nothing but talk about money.”

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