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It still took over 2 years. We knew we'd need to return to England a couple of times a year to see my mother, but when we budgeted in the cost of that travel, we couldn't make it work.


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JANE SMILEY Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
JANE AUSTEN The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really...
JANE AUSTEN In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to te...
JANE AUSTEN There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving peop...
JANE AUSTEN To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plai...
JANE AUSTEN Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last ...
JANE AUSTEN ...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with th...
JANE HARRISON Men are creatures with eight hands.
JANE MANSFIELD It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
JANE AUSTEN Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
JANE AUSTEN A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
JANE AUSTEN Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
JANE AUSTEN Telling lies and showing off to get attention are the mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to m...
JANE FONDA I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
JANE WAGNER When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you co-operate with others easily and autom...
JANE ROBERTS A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
JANE FONDA But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism ...
JANE JACOBS You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful ...
JANE FONDA A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not...
JANE HARRISON My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead, so I dyed my hair.
JANE FONDA I worry that no matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
JANE WAGNER You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spe...
JANE GOODSELL Channels, psychological and psychic, always exist, sending communications back and forth through the...
JANE ROBERTS Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever ...
JANE HOWARD From politics it was an easy step to silence.
JANE AUSTEN There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
JANE AUSTEN I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
JANE AUSTEN