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Quote by Ethel Waters
In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a

In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live. – Ethel Waters

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Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show. – Ethel Waters

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I wanted to be with the kind of people Id grown up with, but you cant go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try. – Ethel Waters

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teen
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Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence. – Ethel Waters

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When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race. – Margaret Sanger

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It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles. – Brooke Shields

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I usually travel with a lot of people, like my dad, mom and sisters. – Booboo Stewart

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I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasnt that way growing up. – Tony Dungy

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