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“Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.”

“My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”

“It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.”

“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”

“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”

“Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.”

“The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.”

“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”

“There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.”

“It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.”