As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

只要一个女人看上去比她自己的女儿年轻十岁，她就心满意足了。

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.

就像母亲教她的孩子们如何用他们的语言表达自己一样，一个吉卜赛音乐家教另一个。他们从来没有表示过需要符号。

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.

在工作的时候，你会想起留在家里的孩子。在家里，你会想到你没有完成的工作。这样的斗争在你的内心得到释放。你的心被撕裂了。

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.

婴儿不需要父亲，但母亲需要。照顾婴儿的人需要被照顾。

Basically it's the core story. About a guy having an affair with the mother of the girl he falls in love with.

基本上这是核心故事。关于一个男人和他爱上的女孩的母亲有外遇的故事。

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

因为我是一个母亲，所以我能够感到震惊:当我不是一个母亲的时候，我从来没有感到过震惊。

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.

成为一个母亲不得不改变事情。作家的生活反映在他们的写作中，不管他们想不想这样，为人父母是生活中最大的变化之一。

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.

在我结婚之前，我有六个关于抚养孩子的理论;现在我有六个孩子，没有理论。

Before you were conceived I wanted you Before you were born I loved you Before you were here an hour I would die for you This is the miracle of life.

在你怀孕之前，我想要你 在你出生之前，我爱过你 你不到一小时我就会为你而死 这就是生命的奇迹。

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

做母亲增加了另一个情感层面，一种对孩子的感觉，这是我以前没有的。他们以前很讨厌。

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

做一个母亲是困难的，这不是我曾经研究过的课题。

Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.

做一个母亲是发生在我身上最好的事情。在你有第一个孩子之前，你是一个女孩，然后你成为一个母亲。没有过渡到成为一个女人;你真的成为了一个母亲，而作为一个母亲意味着你总是爱别人超过爱自己，这是一个无法解释的情况。

Being a mother is the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me in my life.

做一个母亲是我一生中发生在我身上最神奇的事情。

Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.

作为一名小说家和一名母亲，在我的生活中是完全一致的:我的经纪人打电话给我，说我的第一部小说有一份合同——当我带着我的第一个孩子从医院回来时，我正在回电话。

Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them. Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them. Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him. Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it.

孩子的眼泪是苦的，但要使之变甜。 孩子的思想是深沉的，叫他们安静下来。 孩子的痛苦是剧烈的，从他身上取去吧。 孩子的心柔和，不可硬着。