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Jenny Paddleford

“Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.”
- Jenny Paddleford,
- in Clementine Paddleford, A Flower for My Mother (1958)
“Don't whine over evils, daughter, sharpen your teeth on them.”
- Jenny Paddleford,
- in Clementine Paddleford, A Flower for My Mother (1958)

Jenny Paddleford