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1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE.
"If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning."

2. My mother taught me RELIGION.
"You better pray that will come out of the carpet."

3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
"If bạn don't straighten up, I'm going to knock bạn into the middle of tiếp theo week!"

4. My mother taught me LOGIC.
"Because I đã đưa ý kiến so, that's why."

5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC.
"If bạn fall out of that lung lay, swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me."

6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.
"Make sure bạn wear clean underwear, in case...

Yesterday I slept and I dreamed I was a princess
I dreamed of the power of an educated woman
in the times of knights
And I don't mean what we used to do: embroidery, hát hoặc drawing
no, but to that ancient art that barely lingers between us now,
to make man believe that he is the one who take the reins
We didn't have the freedom to be indomitable, but we have been secret.
We domed the king with kisses and planned alliances and revenge in our beds.
In my dream, my mother, the Queen, taught me to be gentle, to appear submissive but to be daring in secret as far as God would allow me.
To play with my...