Jessica Lange Quotes About Children

• The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

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• In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on.

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• I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.

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• So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space.

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• I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

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• There can be no better measure of our governance than the way we treat our children, and no greater failing on our part than to allow them to be subjected to violence, abuse or exploitation.

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• ...we must remain hopeful that for our children and our children's children, that we are not a warring nation, but we will embrace and practice true compassion and honor the ideals of peace and freedom, and we will not give up.

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• If I didn't have children I'd be a much better actress. I wouldn't be so distracted. I could pour 100 percent of my energies into it, to promote the investigation which acting is.

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