“I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.”
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Alice Walker 91
American author and activist 1944Related quotes
“Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.”
Comments on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola
“I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.”
Circulated in "A Coil of Rage" http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/coilofrage.asp, a 2011 mass e-mail attributing several fabricated quotations to Obama.
Originally a statement about Obama by Steve Sailer from "Obama's Identity Crisis", The American Conservative (), recast into first-person as if said by Obama:
And yet, at least through age 33 when he wrote Dreams from My Father, he found solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against his mother's race.
Misattributed
A Pirate Looks at Forty
Song lyrics, A1A (1974)
This is your Life Boris Karloff https://archive.org/details/TIYL_Boris_Karloff (1957)
“I would love this place to be my garden.”
On Arsenal's old stadium.
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“Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.”