"Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in."
-Marcelene Cox
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"Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.“
-Marcelene Cox
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"No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent."
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"One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements."
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"The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible."
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"I've always known I wanted a family."
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"And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure."
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