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"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.“
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"Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own."
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"Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier."
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"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
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"I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves."
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