Julia Gets Wise with Isabel Allende
Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
The Importance of Being a Mother
"I wasn't terrified of the idea of being a mother but something happened that is hard to explain all my life before I became a mother," she says. "My family was don't ask for anything because you won't get it fend for yourself don't whine don't cry be strong perform That was the constant message and great loneliness and then I fell in love but I never admired or respected much that man who was a very good person by the way" When her daughter Paula was born, 'for the first time in my life I felt that I was never going to be alone again' She's now married with two young children; they're doing well at college.
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