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I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.

~Anne Hathaway

Topics: Children Definitely Family Grew Large Large Family Lots Lots And Lots Pretty Really Up Want Were

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Oh, my God. I want to be a mother, and I anticipate loving my children quite fiercely. I think about it all the time, though it's a silly thing to think about because the kind of mother I'll be depends on the kind of children I have. I can't wait to meet them.

~Anne Hathaway

Topics: About Anticipate Because Children Depends Fiercely God Kind Loving Meet Mother Oh Oh My God Quite Silly Them Thing Think Though Time Wait Want I Think

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We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Actually Blood Children Earth Egyptians Expecting Generation Genes Here History How Humor Like Means Only Our Pregnant Profound Pyramids Shared Sibling Time Understand Were Younger Younger Generation

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Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Aches Children Daughter Desperately God Hall Her His Juvenile Lost Love Loves Most Rebel Screwed-Up Sometimes Think Way Who Wildest You I Think

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We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Children Inflict Life Must Society Unwanted Who Will

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You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Both Children Chocolate Flowers Give Give Me Going Great Guilt Helped Just Love Me Mother Our Out People Them Want Who Would You I Love

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I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Children Clue Existential Feel Fill Going Hard How Know Love Many Maybe Need People See Us Will I See

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Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Antagonistic Between Bitter Catastrophe Caught Children Get Grown Kids Marriages Married Mess Most Parents Stayed Till Two Unhappy Us Were Years

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Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is, sadly, true. An unhealthy mother's love is withering.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Children Difficult Equipped Every Judgment Love Love Is Many Monkey Mother Mothers Path Raise Sadly Say True Unhealthy Were Wire Without Woman

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Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. I'll never forget the wrenching days I spent in Haiti last year for Save the Children just weeks after the earthquake.

~Anne M. Mulcahy

Topics: After Children Days Earthquake Else Forget Haiti Innocent Just Last Last Year Little Lives Never Never Forget Save Shocked Spent Takes Talks Thousands Weeks Whenever World Year Tsunami

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