"Yes, I'm writing about motherhood, but I bristle a little bit, especially living with someone whose parenting falls between the cracks of what the culture is ready to recognize as mothering or fathering, but who most certainly is an excellent parent."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Maggie Nelson

#Fall Quotes #Writing Quotes #Motherhood Quotes

“If you want to hear Him say, 'Well done,' you need to do something well.”
“Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.”
“Success shouldn't be measured by how much you have but by how much you give back.”
“I believe in a woman's right to choose.”
“As for America and the rest of European world, I want to live in a nation that reflects my traditions and values, and I do not want my people to become a minority in the nations my own forefathers built. Interestingly, that is same goal that most Israelis and most Jews who support Israel endorse for the Jewish state.”
“It is never a good practice to continue to sleep after sunrise. We should not think of staying in bed once we are awake; it increases laziness and dullness. Those who cannot decrease the amount of sleep quickly may do it in gradual stages. Those who do regular spiritual practice do not need much sleep.”
“If you hear an old parable and you don't believe it, it's mythology. If you hear an old parable and you believe it, it's religion.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 14, 2014
“The universe may be timeless, but if you imagine breaking it into pieces, some of the pieces can serve as clocks for the others. Time emerges from timelessness. We perceive time because we are, by our very nature, one of those pieces.”

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