quotes about Godmother
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Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her?
-- Allison PearsonSource : Allison Pearson (2004). “I don't know how she does it: the life of Kate Reddy, working mother”
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Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories.
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Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.
-- Diane SetterfieldSource : Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.492, Simon and Schuster
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In fact, of all hoodoos in Wall Street I think the resolve to induce the stock market to act as a fairy godmother is the busiest and most persistent.
-- Edwin LefevreSource : Edwin Lefevre (2013). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.261, Lulu Press, Inc
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Please tell me a story about a girl who gets away." I would, even if I had to adapt one, even if I had to make one up just for her. "Gets away from what, though?" "From her fairy godmother. From the happy ending that isn't really happy at all. Please have her get out and run off of the page altogether, to somewhere secret where words like 'happy' and 'good' will never find her." "You don't want her to be happy and good?" "I'm not sure what's really meant by happy and good. I would like her to be free. Now. Please begin.
-- Helen OyeyemiSource : Helen Oyeyemi (2010). “White is for Witching”, p.165, Pan Macmillan
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The key to happiness - as any good fairy godmother will tell you - is not to avoid problems, but to overcome them.
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I believe that our lives, just like fairy tales - the stories that have been written by us humans, through our own experiences of living - will always have a Hero and a Heroine, a Fairy Godmother and a Wicked Witch.
-- Lucinda RileySource : Lucinda Riley (2011). “The Girl on the Cliff”, p.407, Penguin UK
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And yet, I felt a surge of exhilaration just thinking about that night. Not just because I'd met the prince and fallen in love and started on my course toward happiness ever after, but because I'd made something happen. I'd done something everybody had told me I couldn't. I'd changed my life all by myself. Having a fairy godmother would have ruined everything.
-- Margaret HaddixSource : Margaret Peterson Haddix (2015). “Just Ella”, p.57, Simon and Schuster
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The first time I was given money to shop for myself, I was 13 and staying with my godmother in New York. I went to Clinique and bought the three-step acne programme and felt so grown-up.
-- Trinny WoodallSource : "My life in shopping: Trinny Woodall". Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2008.
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The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?
-- Victoria Moran -
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I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
-- Vivien Leigh