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Parenthood is one long exercise in relinquishing control -- or the illusion that we ever had it. Postparenthood is about acceptance.


Jane Adams

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JANE AUSTEN Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be...
JANE AUSTEN I go into the locker room and find a corner and just sit there. I try to achieve a peaceful state of...
JANE BLALOCK It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years ...
JANE AUSTEN It's never too late -- never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
JANE FONDA Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any othe...
JANE AUSTEN I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by ...
JANE AUSTEN A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
JANE HEARD Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end.
JANE TAYLOR To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
JANE FONDA Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen...
JANE SEYMOUR In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain...
JANE SMILEY The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
JANE PORTER In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect... and no.
JANE HADDAM If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that...
JANE FONDA My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.
JANE AUSTEN If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
JANE AUSTEN I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed femal...
JANE AUSTEN