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• Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Claws, Posts

  Katherine Anne Porter (2014). “Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.26, Library of America

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• My aunt could not have been the lone romantic who gave up everything for sex. Women in the old China did not choose. Some man had commanded her to lie with him and be his secret evil.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Sex, Lying, Men

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2014). “The Woman Warrior: Picador Classic”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• As Aunt Naomi was listing all the things she was going to do to help this person, her friend stopped her in mid-sentence. "Naomi, girl," she said, "you need to resign as general manager of the universe. You need to learn that sometimes the best way to help a person is to let them help themselves. Otherwise, they never learn how. And they are always going to make their problems your problems."

  Patti LaBelle

  Girl, Needs, Way

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• The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.

  David Lloyd George

  Government, Political, Politics

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• I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was, I think, 15, 16. They tried to get her to have an abortion and she refused. So, my 'mama' adopted me, which was really her great aunt, which was really my great-great aunt, who was named Viola Dickerson. I was told that my mother was my sister.

  Eric Dickerson

  Mother, Thinking, Abortion

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• I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

  Cristin Milioti

  School, Simple, Piano

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• "Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put to me by the aunt-in-law who had moments before placed a golf club in my virgin grip. I was twenty-five, and had spent my youth in a cloisterd precinct of teh middle class where golf was a rumoured something, like champagne breakfasts and divorce, that the rich did.

  John Updike

  Divorce, Golf, Swings

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• Aunt Petunia often said that Dudley looked like a baby angel — Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig.

  J. K. Rowling

  Baby, Angel, Pigs

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone”, p.24, Pottermore

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• You deliver 2,000 babies or better - 3,000 by that time. And that's, you know, at minimum, three people each. And then if you take grandparents or grandparents of siblings and aunts and uncles, you know, you get - a 100,000 votes outta that

  Tom Coburn

  Baby, Uncles, Sibling

  "Sen. Tom Coburn: A proud contrarian". "60 Minutes", www.cbsnews.com. December 21, 2014.

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• I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can't be judged only by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes only response to pain.

  William J. Clinton

  Life, Uncles, Laughter

  "My Life". Book by William J. Clinton, 2004.

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• When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. It was part of our heritage.

  Mario Batali

  Cousin, Uncles, Children

  "The Traditions of the Table". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. January, 2004.

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• There was a time when I could walk down the street, Hollywood Boulevard or Beverly Drive, and somebody would come up to you and they would say, "Excuse me," and you'd barely hear them, and you'd turn around and you'd say, "Yeah, how you doing?" and they'd say, "I'm really sorry to bother you, but my aunt is a big fan of yours, and would you mind terribly if you'd just sign this paper," or whatever it is, and you're happy to do that, and the people are pretty nice about it.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Sorry, Nice, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was blessed to have family members who encouraged me to pursue my dreams. Whether it is your parents, or your uncles or your aunts or even the neighbor down the road, it's important that kids have someone who encourages them to chase their rainbow.

  Dolly Parton

  Family, Dream, Uncles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda

  Eva Ibbotson

  Other Cultures, Judging, Said

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• The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?" (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and the Angel)

  Peter S. Beagle

  Uncles, Angel, Sin

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• "Well," said my aunt, "this is his boy - his son. He would be as like his father as it's possible to be, if he was not so like his mother, too."

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Mother, Father

  Charles Dickens (1872). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.87

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• "Oh!" said my aunt, "I was not aware at first to whom I had the pleasure of objecting."

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Firsts

  Charles Dickens (1850). “Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observations of David Copperfield the Younger”, p.155

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• When I was driving home, I just thought about the word 'special'. And I thought the last person who said that about me was my Aunt Helen. I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think everyone is special in their own way. I really do.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Grateful, Home, Thinking

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, Aunt Tasha makes jokes about how youʹd actually be a better queen than the others, except sometimes . . . I donʹt think sheʹs joking.

  Richelle Mead

  Queens, Thinking, Sometimes

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• I know that's a vague answer, but you just have to really pedal yourself around town and attempt to not get too discouraged. There is also a different kind of challenge for women, as they graduate into their 30s. It's hard. There isn't as much work. You're suddenly the aunt, or something. So, it's a process.

  Anna Faris

  Challenges, Different, Answers

  Source: collider.com

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• The great thing about getting married young like I did and having a child so young is that he gets to know all the relatives. He knew his great-grandmother, and we sat down together and tied down the stories of our uncles and aunts.

  Tony Danza

  Uncles, Children, Grandmother

  "Q&A: Tony Danza on Don Jon, Fake Deaths, and Scarlett Johansson". Interview with Danielle Bacher, www.esquire.com. September 27, 2013.

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• Aunt Loretta has something that maybe you could call class. It's not the made-up kind that Grandma has, fake pearls and Sunday hats, but something that comes to you as if you were born to the king and queen. Aunt Loretta understands better than Grandma that reading a big book is more classy than wearing fake pearls watching TV.

  Heidi

  Kings, Queens, Book

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• I am the monarch of the sea,
  The Ruler of the Queen's Navee,
  Whose praise Great Britain loudly chants
  And we are his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts!

  Unknown

  Cousin, Queens, Sea

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• Now, I have nothing to say against uncles in general. They are usually very excellent people, and very convenient to little boys and girls.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Girl, Uncles, Boys

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• My face is muffled in my mother's clothing. Her rhinestones injure me. See: my feet are going. Fish flee the forefinger of my aunt. The sun streams over the geraniums. What has this to do with what I feel, with what I am.

  William H. Gass

  Mother, Feet, Childhood

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