Schoolchildren all over America are told to write to authors-often to authors whom they have never before heard of, whose work they… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
My daughter Gabby very kindly once said that she thinks I was a better mother because I was doing a job I… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
As a child, I'd help my mum cook, and it was ridiculous - she had the correct gadget or utensil for everything.… — Kelis Copy Share Image
“You know I believe that all children should have pets if it can possibly be managed, she wrote. I feel it is… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas: It brings people together while time stands still. Cozy couples lazily meandered… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“There is nothing redemptive about the loss of a child, no lessons of value it can teach you. It is too big,… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
Materialistic success can be explained quite simply. Those who succeed focus their attention on success - not on their talent. Remember these… — Brad Steiger Copy Share Image
We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. The alcohol. We committed the murders.… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
You need to be emotionally ready for a baby, and the best way to do that is to clean skeletons from your… — Holly Marie Combs Copy Share Image
“Just a boy, Just a child, In a place where no one grows up; Young bodies with old minds, Dream and nightmare… — Emory R. Frie Copy Share Image
Although people have different perceptions, I personally define myself as a mother. My life has been revolving around children since a young… — Reham Khan Copy Share Image
I love all of my children equally, all of my printed books, and each one bears a special piece of me. But… — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
For a woman as for a man, marriage might enormously help or devastatingly hinder the growth of her power to contribute something… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
Women are far more likely to follow orders to evacuate, especially women with children. At the same time, women were much more… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
In a real fight, there ain't no time and you've got to use your wits. If someone were threatening the life of… — Hugo Weaving Copy Share Image
“As a child, at the age when others promise to be Chateaubriand or nothing, I had written that I would be myself… — Marcel Benabou Copy Share Image
“I started taking walks with my children on trash day just to collect the extra proofs of purchase. We’d roam the alleys… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
Women are not taught to get a massage or do anything for ourselves because it makes us feel extraordinarily guilty. But the… — Rachel Roy Copy Share Image
The problem of moral change would appear to be one of presenting stimuli which are both sufficiently incongruous as to stimulate conflict… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
“Distinctions have been drawn by certain exceedingly wise men (measured by their own estimate of themselves), between the people of God who… — Dalton Lifsey Copy Share Image
“As I've looked into the eyes of street children in Afghanistan desperate for a future other than terrorism, or children in Rwanda… — Bernard Amadei Copy Share Image
When you've got a mother who's given birth to eight children, you know, often without any kind of medical intervention - just… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
What I want is a world where neither gender nor sex are destiny. Where no child is ever told there's anything they… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
“She was a tiny, frailly built girl, who gave the appearance of a child masquerading in her mother’s enormous hoop skirts –… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I should like to ask you:-Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother's knee, seem… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
With world health, every life you save is a wonderful thing, so it's not this question of whether you solve it or… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Children usually learn more from the examples set by their elders than from what they are told;… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“As a child I had grown up around individual dogs that belonged to various members of an extended family and friends, as… — Yohai Reuben Copy Share Image
But, you know, when I look at somebody like Hillary Clinton, who sits there and tells her daughter and a government official… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My teenage children watched Senator Clinton on the Today Show, mouths agape. They attended our local caucus with me and saw hundreds… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
“I wrote about how you can love your child with something that surpasses logic and reason and words, and you can still… — Lisa Duffy Copy Share Image
What gives me concern in so much of the comment is the implication that the people of Hong Kong have to be… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“I believe she is Selene, goddess of the moon." "She looks so content." "You sound surprised." "Well," Callie said tentatively, "Selene is… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,'… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
The children - I call them children when they're under 18 - are hungry for that love. The drugs are just a… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
