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Heber J. Grant Quote: 'Being an only child, my mother ...'

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I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad.


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Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.
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I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life.


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My mother was the favorite child of her parents. My father was the favorite child of his parents. The result of these two favorite children was me. And I am an only child. So I was convinced that I was the center of the universe.
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Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
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I have a history of eating disorders but, as a mother, you think of being an example to your child. I'm so much more balanced than I was.
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I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.
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I don't like people being cautious and tentative and choosing their words carefully around me because I'm a dwarf.
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And maybe that's being the third child, although my entire family are very resilient - very, very resilient.
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My mother was very family-oriented. And I do love being with my children.


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But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.
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My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry a tune.
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My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.
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Your child is never not your child. You can be 90 and your mother 120, but your mother is still worried about you.
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I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.
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Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother 'worked' at anything besides raising her children.
Joyce Maynard
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I think, to me, the sheer joy of fancy dress is that it allows you to take a break from our very carefully considered and constructed identities.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
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I wouldn't just come home from school and watch TV everyday, they had me involved in lots of local theatre. I was a very dramatic, talkative child. And that was part of my mother's creative solution - to put me in workshops and classes and children's theatre programmes.
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