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“My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, "All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: 'On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to sister”
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“My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.”
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“The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.”
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“Without music, life is a journey through a desert.”
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“My mother saw in 'Gone With the Wind' the text of liberating herself, ... She took 'Gone With the Wind' as the central book in her life, and made it the central book in her family.”
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“The genius of the (original) novel is they were the mother and father of what Atlanta was going to become, ... Would I have written a better novel than Margaret Mitchell? Hell no.”
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“Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.”
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“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”
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“The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.”
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“The mother is only really the mistress of her daughter upon the condition of continually representing herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection”
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