The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.


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The best thing a man can do on a first date is be a friend. I think that's the biggest mistake m...
ADRIENNE BAILON
The Clarkson Cup is something that has evolved in the most wonderful and meaningful way,
ADRIENNE CLARKSON
Historical records show that Abenakis and other Natives encountered European explorers and traders i...
ADRIENNE MAYOR
I have an odd fetish with nails. I was always doing beauty blogs about nails, and it would be on Fri...
ADRIENNE BAILON
One of my favorite fall items is a turtleneck. Cozy pieces like that for the fall - cashmere, fluffy...
ADRIENNE BAILON
Many scholars are not used to perceiving natural knowledge expressed in mythological language. If th...
ADRIENNE MAYOR
I have discovered that if you take all the places of Greek myths, those specific locales turn out to...
ADRIENNE MAYOR
I think the key to the whole appeal of Amazons is the egalitarian society. There was once a time and...
ADRIENNE MAYOR
The nomads' egalitarian lifestyle astonished the Greeks, who kept their own women indoors weavin...
ADRIENNE MAYOR
Autism currently affects one in 88 children in the U.S., and its prevalence continues to rise. That&...
ADRIENNE BAILON
I just had a hunch that there might be kernels of truth or reality - scientific or historical realit...
ADRIENNE MAYOR
As early as 1681-82, a group of Abenakis had accompanied the French explorer La Salle on his histori...
ADRIENNE MAYOR
Looking past the short-term price risk inherent in essentially any asset -- real or financial -- the...
ADRIENNE WARREN
We're keeping the record going.
ADRIENNE LEPTICH
We just have not seen much snow at all this year.
ADRIENNE LEPTICH
It means any kind of spark or people throwing cigarettes can turn into brush fires, like the ones we...
ADRIENNE LEPTICH
It's very complex and we have to look at it all very carefully because it is so complex.
ADRIENNE LAURENT
We don't want to raise expectations. The joint powers authority is one option, but it's one of the s...
ADRIENNE LAURENT
I also talked to Salinas police, and they have requested we do this for the investigation.
ADRIENNE LAURENT
I had never seen so many people at Guild Hall. We knew there was a need.
ADRIENNE KITAEFF
I've never tried to define my states of mind when I write.
ADRIENNE KENNEDY
I had always wanted to write about Ohio State.
ADRIENNE KENNEDY
I get excited by landscape.
ADRIENNE KENNEDY
I was faced with no job, my marriage had just ended, I had two children I had to take care of, my sc...
ADRIENNE GONZALEZ
They love the fabric and, really, that's what Bella Bags is all about -- our fabric combination.
ADRIENNE GONZALEZ
The bottom line is people say they hate commercials, but in reality they go to the movies they want ...
ADRIENNE BECKER
As an exhibitor, control what you can control.
ADRIENNE BECKER
One of the most amazing things (about this study) is where television and Web advertising came into ...
ADRIENNE BECKER
He is pushed out the door, he shoots, flees and disposes of the gun.
ADRIENNE BACHMAN
Ladies and gentlemen, that November 9th, Geraldine Lowe was just trying to keep her family together,...
ADRIENNE BACHMAN
People will still come to the theme parks, and, in Florida, we have the Keys. I get requests for the...
ADRIENNE ANDERSON
It's a break from regular class. I don't like Tuesdays and Thursdays because it's silent reading.
ADRIENNE ANDERSON
Before I began concentrating on writing, in my free time I was an artist, making and selling etching...
ADRIENNE MAYOR
I really wanted to do this, just as Lord Stanley did,
ADRIENNE CLARKSON
I hope that someday, somebody wants to hold you for twenty minutes straight, and that’s all they d...
ADRIENNE SHELLY
In April 2001, I visited Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky. The heaps of mastodon and other large...
ADRIENNE MAYOR
Pergamon, a prosperous city in western Anatolia, was fabled to have been founded by Hercules' so...
ADRIENNE MAYOR
Second hand smoke is just a known health risk.
ADRIENNE HERRON
Secondhand smoke is the third leading cause of preventative death in the United States. For every ei...
ADRIENNE HERRON
The Ephesians took great pride in their temple, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Amazo...
ADRIENNE MAYOR
When you are from a well-respected family, often times you will have pressure to "live up to your fa...
ADRIENNE KRESS