In our society mothers take ...

In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally.
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 Katharine Whitehorn

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No nice men are good at getting taxis.
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I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.
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Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.
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