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“Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.”

— Beryl Bainbridge

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I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

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Ability involves responsibility. Power to its last particle is duty.

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Man is not altogether an imbecile. True, "circumstances do make the man." But they make him only in the sense and degree that he permits them to make him.

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