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“Poverty makes motherhood harder, and motherhood makes poverty harder. Single mothers and their children are, by far, the poorest type of family in the United States.”
― Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
― Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
“Society’s contempt for the poor becomes the poor person’s contempt for herself.”
― Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
― Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
“Influence in society, however, is a capital which has to be economized if it is to last.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“Iris,” said Roman, “you are worthy of love. You are worthy to feel joy right now, even in the darkness. And just in case you’re wondering … I’m not going anywhere, unless you tell me to leave, and even then, we might need to negotiate.”
― Divine Rivals
― Divine Rivals
“To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality (it means acting to please God, in the ancient language).”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
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