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My mother turned 40 in 1973. So in 1970 - when 'The Female Eunuch' came out and Ms. magazine was founded - my mom was 37 with two children, and she was just that little bit too old, and the circumstances of her life were set up in a certain way that for her to fulfill her ambitions and dreams, she would have had to break with the family.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Ambition Bit Break Came Certain Certain Way Children Circumstances Dreams Family Female Founded Fulfill Had Her Just Life Little Little Bit Magazine Mom Mother Old Out Set She Too Turned Two Up Way Were Would Ms

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Especially since having children, a lot of the time if you ask me, 'Have you read that book?' the answer would be 'not personally.'

~Claire Messud

Topics: Answer Ask Book Children Having Having Children Lot Me Personally Read Since Time Would You

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Everybody's always living in fiction just as much as children, but the way our stories are faked is curtailed by all sorts of narratives we take into our own lives about what are the true narratives and what's not.

~Claire Messud

Topics: About Always Children Everybody Fiction Just Just As Much Lives Living Much Narratives Our Own Sort Stories Take True Way

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Essentially, I spent most of my childhood with my mother and my older sister, and I suppose I had rather a romantic vision of how things might be if there were men around; I saw myself in a country house with six children and a garden. That has never been achieved - and I still regret it.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Achieved Around Been Childhood Children Country Essentially Garden Had House How Men Might Most Mother Myself Never Older Older Sister Rather Regret Romantic Saw Sister Six Spent Still Suppose Things Vision Were

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Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Attention Away Because Being Children Corner Dreadful Flickering Programmes Short Spans Television Today Very Which

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I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the 'New Statesman.' I remember thinking, 'That's perfect.' It was three days a week, and I had children, but I could make that work - so I applied for it and got it.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Applied Children Could Days Deputy Editor Evening Going Got Had Heard Job Literary Make New Perfect Remember Standard Statesman Thinking Three Week Work Working I Remember

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Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts.

~Clara Zetkin

Topics: Approved Belgium Children Democratic Destruction Districts Homes Illegal Invasion Massacre Organs Social Suspected Towns Trade Trade Union Union Various Well Wives

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Not everyone has to have children. If everyone had two or three, we'd run out of room.

~Clare Balding

Topics: Children Everyone Had Out Room Run Three Two

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Sadly, I think that 'Children of Men' has only become an increasingly relevant and realistic portrait of where we are in the world.

~Clare-Hope Ashitey

Topics: Become Children Increasingly Men Only Portrait Realistic Relevant Sadly Think Where World I Think

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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

~Clarence Darrow

Topics: Children First Half Lives Our Our Lives Parents Ruined Second

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