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“I find it offensive to motherhood to call being a mother a job. Being a mother isn't a job. It's who someone is. It's who I am. You can quit a job. I can't quit being a mother. I'm a mother forever. Mothers are never off the clock, mothers are never on vacation.”
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“There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant. ”
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“No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.”
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“... American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.”
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“There are murders as subtle as a turned eye.”
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“... danger was always at its most lethal when disguised as respectability.”
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“The air and the sky seem to have been freshly washed and polished, and the people too.”
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“If what I am watching evaporated before my eyes, I would remain.”