Joan Ryan Quotes

• Motherhood is about raising and celebrating the child you have, not the child you thought you would have. It's about understanding that he is exactly the person he is supposed to be. And that, if you're lucky, he just might be the teacher who turns you into the person you are supposed to be.

  Joan Ryan

  Teacher, Children, Motherhood

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• Animal research and testing has played a part in almost every medical breakthrough of the last century. It has saved hundreds of millions of lives worldwide.

  Joan Ryan

  Animal, Lasts, Research

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• We are a nation that shouts at a microwave oven to hurry up.

  Joan Ryan

  Microwaves, Ovens, Nations

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• Sports have a way of touching people.

  Joan Ryan

  Sports, People, Touching

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• We are such idiots, We think everyone else has it all figured out. But we're all stumbling around in dark rooms bumping into furniture and stifling our cries so no one will know.

  Joan Ryan

  Dark, Thinking, Rooms

  Joan Ryan (2009). “The Water Giver: The Story of a Mother, a Son, and Their Second Chance”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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