I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

—Paula Poundstone

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Paula Poundstone (born December 29, 1959) is an American stand-up comedian, author, actress, interviewer, and commentator. In the late 1980s, she performed the first of several HBO comedy specials. She provided backstage commentary during the 1992 presidential election on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. She is the host of...

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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

—Paula Poundstone

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

—Paula Poundstone

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We are impressed with nature's power, but by projecting upon this power an image of the feminine, the mother, we reassure ourselves—for surely a mother will always be loving toward us, continue to feed us, clothe us, and carry away our wastes, and never kill us, no matter how much toxic waste we put in the soil or how many CFCs in the ozone. The sense of nature as inexhaustible mother encourages us to feel there are no limits to a finite planet, while the sense of nature as benign and ever-loving mother permits us to continue disregarding a crescendo of warnings.

—Elizabeth Dodson Gray

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What mother and daughter understand each other, or even have sympathy for each other's lack of understanding?

—Maya Angelou

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All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysands to foist their problems onto the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.

—Germaine Greer

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At that moment, I missed my mother more than I had ever imagined possible and wanted only to live somewhere quiet and beautiful with her alone, but also at that moment I wanted only to see her lying dead, all withered and in a coffin at my feet.

—Jamaica Kincaid

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My mother was my first jealous lover.

—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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