My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didnt always know how to be… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain, you may… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Women should know that they don't have to hang on to an old dream that has stopped nurturing them - that there… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
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Food = joy ... guilt ... anger ... pain ... nurturing ... friendship ... hatred ... the way you look and feel… Food = everything you can imagine. — Susan Powter Copy Share Image
The first Victoria's Secret model I ever met was Adriana Lima, and she was so nice to me. She was very generous… — Lily Aldridge Copy Share Image
There's such a grace and understanding in the female persona when women have really come into their own. Part of that is… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the current argument is "not having net neutrality will hurt innovation," and you can make that argument, but I would rather… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Any individual or society that fails to honor or provide the opportunity for women to fully exert their power can never truly… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
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I've grown up watching and admiring Norm. Sherie actually starred in the first off-Broadway show I ever saw in New York, which… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
[Irony] has everything to do with what Tillie Olsen so powerfully imagined in her short story, "As I Stand Here Ironing" and… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
We should expect hope's reciprocity as a natural flowering of the life of hope. Helping others and nurturing hope is expressive of… — Patrick Shade Copy Share Image
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Commitment to an idea that has the power to transform you personally in any way is a vision worth nurturing. The bottom… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
These days, in our materialistic culture, many people are led to believe that money is the ultimate source of happiness. Consequently, when… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Normally we empower our demons by believing they are real and strong in themselves and have the power to destroy us. As… — Tsultrim Allione Copy Share Image
“Professor Gruenfeld was able to explain the price women pay for success. “Our entrenched cultural ideas associate men with leadership qualities and… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“That's where the importance of nurturing comes in; the already sculpted personality is not recast, but refined. Loving, caring families can sand… — Lorna Landvik Copy Share Image
“Our abusive parent didn't give us the gentle, encouraging nurturing we needed. But healing invites us to give our inner child the… — Jeanne McEvlaney Copy Share Image
It is a holy blessing to be born with the exquisite qualities of a daughter of God. Women of God, both old… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image
If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
These same experiences make of the sequence of life cycles a generational cycle, irrevocably binding each generation to those that gave it… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
I really lucked out with that song ["As Cool As I Am"]. Men were becoming much more comfortable with all the different… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
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In general, I've found female protagonists more intriguing to work with than males. I cherish women and have always preferred their company,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
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Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation,… — Linda Gregerson Copy Share Image
For most women being other-directed, focused on how other people feel and nurturing them, was (and can still be) a quality that… — Judith M Bardwick Copy Share Image
We all compromise ourselves, from time to time, because maybe it will lead to more opportunity...A ll of that’s cool, but we… — Paul Walker Copy Share Image
The way I view feminism — and I know there are a lot of different things going on — but, at its… — Kat Dennings Copy Share Image
We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
I have what's known as a 'spirited' child. Mia has run me ragged since she knew how to walk. She'd run across… — Stephanie Land Copy Share Image
![“[Irony] has everything to do with what Tillie Olsen so powerfully imagined in her short story, "As I Stand Here Ironing" and elaborates on polemically in her 1978 book, Silences, in a chapter first delivered as a talk in 1967. As Olsen clearly saw it for women, my not being a writer was a material…” quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ab/shirley-geok-lin-lim-3190_being-a-woman_irony-has-everything-to-do-with-what-til_1284033.png)
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