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"Like many women my age, I am 28 years old."

Mary Schmich on Birthday

More quotes about Birthday

  • "God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well."

    Voltaire on Birthday

  • "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."

    Oprah Winfrey on Birthday

  • "My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."

    Jim Valvano on Birthday

  • "I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."

    Eleanor Roosevelt on Birthday

  • "The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance."

    Brian Tracy on Birthday

More quotes by Mary Schmich

  • "Like many women my age, I am 28 years old."

  • "I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation."

  • "Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you a few may be close to right, none exactly right."

  • "A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing."

  • "For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation."

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