Your mother calls and says ...

Your mother calls and says she hasn't seen you for a long time. The first year: You invite her for a week. You give her your room, and you both sleep on the lumpy studio couch. The fifth year: Your mother sleeps on the lumpy studio couch. The tenth year: You send the children to mother.
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 Lois Wyse

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Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
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 Lois Wyse
Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.
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I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against our daughters.
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Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.
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A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
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 Lois Wyse