Best person Quote by Doris Lessing

“I remember myself as a child, pudgy and awkward and unsure of myself. For a moment I wonder how anyone could love such a…

— Ashlee Willis

“I felt there was a lot I needed to teach her. I wanted to give her an early grounding in the basics of arithmetic…

— Jeannette Walls

“It is interesting how often unintelligent, even stupid, women manage their emotional lives more satisfactorily than do their cleverer sisters.”

— P.D. James

“She wasn't sure that parenting ever qualified as brave. Or maybe it always did. Because it's not like you got a choice.”

— Laurie Frankel

“Fun. Wasn't that really the beauty of childhood? That you measured experiences by how much fun they were, not by how much work or…

— Katherine Heiny

“No longer did she look like a shy little maid who was trained to censor her thought before it reached her mouth. These past…

— Kien Nguyen

“Once more, I was left alone. My way of dealing with emotional distress was to immediately engage my heart and intellect in a search…

— Jacqueline Tusi

“I observed the woman I had been up until then: weak but trying to give the impression of strength. Fearful of everything but telling…

— Paulo Coelho

“Honestly, of all the unnecessary things her mother had taught her in the last eighteen years, she couldn’t have found two minutes to say,…

— Kristi Ann Hunter

“And I knew, as I had always known but somehow forgotten to remember in these past years, that I could never have done it,…

— Melanie Benjamin

“Perhaps if I had made his life more difficult, he would have written less, or less freely. I cannot claim to be the midwife…

— Byatt A. S

“She was not an unkind woman, despite a lifetime of being gently dried out on the stove of education, but she was conscientious and…

— Terry Pratchett