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Martha Moody

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Quotes by Martha Moody

You can gussy them up with all the pretty rationales you want, but most major life decisions are whims.
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You can gussy them up with all the pretty rationales you want, but most major life decisions are whims.
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When you’re in college you haven’t had that much life. Parents, school, assorted youth activities – that’s about it.
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When you’re in college you haven’t had that much life. Parents, school, assorted youth activities – that’s about it.
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Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.
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Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.
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It hit me then that my family is gone, really gone, and even though I have ll these kids, they'll never know my family, so in a way they'll never know me, because they don't know me with my family. I don't have a context for my children.
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It hit me then that my family is gone, really gone, and even though I have ll these kids, they'll never know my family, so in a way they'll never know me, because they don't know me with my family. I don't have a context for my children.
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#family-history
Still, we're less betrayed by others, it seems, than by our own hopes and dreams.
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Still, we're less betrayed by others, it seems, than by our own hopes and dreams.
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#betrayal #hopes-and-dreams
He was big, that Sid. He was a force, a character, and I wondered fleetingly if Sally and I would ever seem as big to our offspring as Sid had seemed to us.
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He was big, that Sid. He was a force, a character, and I wondered fleetingly if Sally and I would ever seem as big to our offspring as Sid had seemed to us.
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#personality #father #parents
When you're in college you haven't had that much life. Parents, school, assorted youth activities—that's about it.
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When you're in college you haven't had that much life. Parents, school, assorted youth activities—that's about it.
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#college