Beans Quote by Elizabeth Haydon

The caretaking has to be done. "Somebody's got to be the mommy." Individually, we underestimate this need, and as a society we make inadequate…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

Can we really expect adequate funding for programs to clean up our environment and care for people's basic needs as long as the socially…

— Riane Eisler

Not only do our wives need support, but our children need our deep involvement in their lives. If this period [the early years] ofprimitive…

— Augustus Napier

Today I will practice healthy giving, understanding that caretaking and compulsive giving don't work. I choose what I want to give, to whom, when,…

— Melody Beattie

Caring works. Caretaking doesn't. We can learn to walk the line between the two.

— Melody Beattie

The task is clear: to create a culture of caretaking in which no one and nowhere is thrown away, in which the inherent value…

— Naomi Klein

“I’d write and read and let myself, a little at a time, step down into myself- like a stairway down into a dark, intimate…

— Mark Doty

We're vulnerable to repeating history, especially if we don't know what's driving us. For example, it may be a family tradition to marry someone…

— Harriet Lerner

There is no neediness in desire ... there is no caretaking in desire. Caretaking is mightily loving, [but] it's a powerful anti-aphrodisiac.

— Esther Perel

“But we have, if not our understanding, our own experience, and it feels to me sealed, inviolable, ours. We have a last, deep week…

— Mark Doty

I did Chekhov's Three Sisters once. Two months in, I remember going, "Human beings shouldn't be forced to do or watch this play every…

— Justin Theroux

I grew up in Cazenovia, N.Y. I'm the second of five children, with three sisters and a brother.

— Siobhan Fallon Hogan