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“Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.”
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Mary Blakely
Source : Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.125, Simon and Schuster
#Divorce Quotes
#Bypass Quotes
#Psychological Quotes
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“A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.”
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Mary Blakely
#Mother Quotes
#Children Quotes
#Cocky Quotes
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“It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.”
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Mary Blakely
Source : Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.30, Simon and Schuster
#Home Quotes
#World Quotes
#Study Quotes
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“Women aren't trying to do too much. Women have too much to do.”
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Mary Blakely
Source : Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.199, Simon and Schuster
#Trying Quotes
#Too Much Quotes
#Busy Quotes
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“The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.”
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Mary Blakely
Source : Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.26, Simon and Schuster
#Years Quotes
#Next Quotes
#Twenties Quotes
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“Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.”
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Mary Blakely
#Art Quotes
#Anger Quotes
#Fine Quotes
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“Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like tornado alerts in parent manuals. . . . It is a relative term that means different things in different places. In Fort Wayne, for example, the wrong crowd meant hanging out with liberal Democrats. In Connecticut, it meant kids who weren't planning to get a Ph. D. from Yale.”
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Mary Blakely
#Mean Quotes
#Kids Quotes
#Yale Quotes
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“If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced.”
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Mary Blakely
#Solitude Quotes
#Periods Quotes
#Should Quotes
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“Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by pass. After such a monumental assault on the heart, it takes years to amend all the habits and attitudes that led up to it.”
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Mary Blakely
#Attitude Quotes
#Divorce Quotes
#Heart Quotes
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“One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never meet.”
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Mary Blakely
Source : Mary Kay Blakely (1989). “Wake Me when It's Over: A Journey to the Edge and Back”, Crown
#Inspiring Quotes
#Children Quotes
#Soul Quotes
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“Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?”
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Mary Blakely
Source : Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
#Mother Quotes
#Want Quotes
#Way Quotes
