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Rita Dove Quotes:

Ocupation: Poet

Life: b. August 28, 1952

Birthday: August 28

Anyone can tell you that how you're raised as a child has a great deal to do with how you behave as an adult and whether you have complexes or whether you need to prove yourself or all that kind of stuff and yet the mother in a traditional family who has raised a child never makes it in the history books.

- Rita Dove

source: Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 19, 2009.

topic: Mother, Children, Book, Proving Yourself, History Books, Traditional Family

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