Letty Cottin Pogrebin - Deborah, Golda, and me (1991)

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Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.

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Her [mother's] constant care blurs into the maternal mists while his [father's] few alcohol rubs are as memorable as if they were anointments by a prophet.

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If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.

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Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.

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To me, a person's identity is composed of both an 'I' and a 'we.' The 'I' finds itself in love, work, and pleasure, but it also locates itself within some meaningful group identity — a tribe, a community, a 'we.' America is too big and bland a tribe for most of us.

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We can remind the world that all the dead on both sides have not settled our differences, so now it is time for the living to renounce violence as a means of solving this conflict.

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I feel about mothers the way I feel about dimples: because I do not have one myself, I notice everyone who does.

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The High Holy Days of my childhood... embodied the very essence of new beginnings; for autumn, not spring, was when everything was new: my clothes, my classroom, books, pencil box, teachers — and Jewish chronology, which decreed a fresh start, a clean slate, a chance to improve on the past.

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I want to visit Memory Lane, I don't want to live there.

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