Amount Quote by Brooke Shields

Women are told that we can have the most exciting, glamorous, demanding, rewarding careers ever but we also have to be constantly sexy and…

— Stephanie Coontz

It's hard for anyone to say that they chose to put their parent in a home rather than give up a large part of…

— Arlene Phillips

“Two years ago," she says, "I was afraid of spiders, suffocation, walls that inch slowly inward and trap you between them,getting thrown out of…

— Veronica Roth

My father's death when I was eighteen and his struggles as a Jewish immigrant provided me with the raw material, but for a long…

— Philip Schultz

I began writing 'The Cold Song' in the months following my father's death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right…

— Linn Ullmann

“Trust me, Mr. Maxwell.” No more Christian name familiarity for him! “Greyden Kane has never had to ‘overwhelm’ anyone.” He was overwhelming enough on…

— Kathryn Smith

“Emma dropped the letter. The first thing she felt was a sinking in her stomach and a trembling in her knees; then, a sense…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Now I know grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart from within.…

— Claudia Gray

“Words are Hamlet's constant companions, his weapons, and his defenses. ... And yet, words also serve as Hamlet's prison. He analyzes and examines every…

— Carla Lynn Stockton

She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die.

— Melissa Bank

I'm not interested in using my father's death as some touch point for why I've become an actor - it's grossly opportunistic.

— Cate Blanchett

After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more.

— Elie Wiesel