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The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)

by Freida McFadden (Goodreads Author)

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I Give my Marriage a Year

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Bridie’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Create or Hate: Successful People Make Things

Create or Hate: Successful People Make Things by Dan Norris

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“If you are alive, you are a creative person.” —Liz Gilbert

“A mother is always patient. A mother is always kind. A mother is always giving. A mother never falls apart. A mother is the buffer between her child and the cruel world.”
― Jessamine Chan, The School for Good Mothers

tags: cruel-world, kindness, mom, mother-and-child, motherhood, motherhood-quotes, mothers, patience

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“A mother is a shark. You're always moving. Always learning. Always trying to better yourself.”
― Jessamine Chan, The School for Good Mothers

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“The rural women taught me that courage is contagious and that there’s strength in numbers; what you can’t do on your own can be achieved together, the more the better.”
― Isabel Allende, Violeta

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“Loneliness is a form of narcissism. A mother who is in harmony with her child, who understands her place in her child's life and her role in society, is never lonely. Through caring for her child, all her needs are fulfilled.”
― Jessamine Chan, The School for Good Mothers

tags: dystopia, dystopian, human-needs, loneliness, lonely, mother, mother-and-child, motherhood, narcissism, narcissist

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“That fairy tale that all humans are equal before the law and in the eyes of God is a lie, Camilo. I hope you don’t buy into it. Neither the law nor God treats everyone the same.”
― Isabel Allende, Violeta

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