“I was so struck by Flow’s negative implications for parents that I decided I wanted to speak to Csikszentmihalyi, just to make… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
Governments and politicians use the family as an indicator of the health and strength of social life. Politicians fear that any weakening… — Adrian Wilson Copy Share Image
I had made a vow to never stay in my home state to play, I wanted to go as far East Coast… — Hope Solo Copy Share Image
Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews books wrote, in reviewing a study of… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival… — Neiviv Eiram Ocsicnarf Copy Share Image
Barack Obama was elected during my second year of college, and save for his skin color, he had much in common with… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
When you have a family, even though you might move a lot, you collect all of these things. It's the detritus of… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. This happiness is the simplest and least costly kind, and it cannot… — Robert J. Havighurst Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The research points pretty clearly to the rise of companionate marriage, and I just think it's going to keep being popular, for… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once you have a baby,… — Kajol Copy Share Image
In short, with each of the thousand-and-one problems that present themselves in family life, our choice is between controlling and teaching, between… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
“Dr Leila Gupta found that most children had witnessed extreme violence and did not expect to survive. Two-thirds of the children interviewed… — Ahmed Rashid Copy Share Image
Cynie Cory roams the outer reaches of the heart’s territory, from the snowy winter of family life to the tropical jungles of… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
When things are investigated, then true knowledge is achieved; when true knowledge is achieved, then the will becomes sincere; when the will… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Television hols up a mirror to the true nature of family life today. For the first time people see themselves reflected and… — Ken Hollings Copy Share Image
Family life is tough, I'll say that for it. But in my case, I've mined the family. In a sense, I've used… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
“Son unas cualquieras,” she mutters. Nobodies. No culture, no family life, illiterates, she means. The kind of people who make her cross… — Meg Medina Copy Share Image
If you organize your family life to spend even ten or fifteen minutes a morning reading something that connects you with these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life goes on much the same. In the face of terrifying dangers and golden political opportunities, people just keep-on keeping-on in a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Young women you will be the ones who will provide the example of virtuous womanhood and motherhood. You will continue to be… — Elaine S. Dalton Copy Share Image
“The family is the cradle of the world’s misinformation. There must be something in family life that generates factual error. Over-closeness, the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“A corollary of this has been that Christians have thought that they should only create art with a Pollyanna quality to it:… — Steve Turner Copy Share Image
The Huxtables laughed and bonded and debated and lip-synced. They were glamorous and simple and extraordinarily human. And affluent. And educated. And… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
“Julia, is everything all right?” her father said in a raspy voice. “It’s three in the morning, m’ija.” “I’m sorry. I have… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
“To be clear, male leadership in marriage does not mean the husband does everything or even that he decides everything. Rather, it… — Richard D. Phillips Copy Share Image
Promotion of health generally by improving the standard of living. From the health point of view we are in this connexion first… — Karl Evang Copy Share Image
Feminism insists on women's right to make choices - about whether to marry, whether to have children, whether to combine work and… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
