In the hospital when my children were born.
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When the acting is going really well – when I am flying.
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When I am working on something I really like, or when I am alone with my son playing in the garden.
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In the hospital after my C-section, hanging out with my new baby, feeling very, very happy and grateful.
When I changed the toner cartridge in my printer all on my own – that was a day of pure euphoria.
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One of my daughter's. She wrote a song for me called Strong Like You, and she played it at the opening of my last play, Mother Courage. Every mother there cried.
Getting ill. I am in remission [from rheumatoid arthritis], but there is no cure.
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