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Herb Galewitz
Our Price$1.50
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Format: Book
Grade Level: 9 and Up (ages 14 and up)
ISBN: 0486419401
Page Count: 64
Dimensions: 5 3/16 x 8 1/4
Scores of quotes, sayings, and speculations on motherhood — from Roman poet Virgil to comedienne Phyllis Diller — comprise this delightful and entertaining compendium. Shakespeare is quoted, as are Sophocles, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Thomas Jefferson, Victor Hugo, Napoleon, Edna Ferber, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Gloria Vanderbilt, and many others.

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