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- The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.
- Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003
- How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.
- Alice Walker (1944 - ), O Magazine, May 2003
- A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy C. Fisher (1879 - 1958), quoted in O Magazine, May 2003
- There is…nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.
- H. R. Schaffer, O Magazine, May 2003
- Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.
- Barbara Schapiro, O Magazine, May 2003
- The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
- Jill Churchill, O Magazine, May 2003
- What children take from us, they give…We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
- Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003
- The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), O Magazine, May 2003
- Food is our common ground, a universal experience.
- James Beard
- The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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