"Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they teach their daughters simply how to get along in a world that has been shaped by men and male desires, then they betray their daughters' potential But, if they do not, they leave their daughters adrift in a hostile world without survival strategies."

-- Elizabeth Debold

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Winning Quotes

“But if there's love, dear... those are the ties that bind, and you'll have a family in your heart, forever.”
“'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.”

Source : "The Interview: "Opus's" Berkeley Breathed". Interview with Michael Cavna, voices.washingtonpost.com. October 22, 2008.
“[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after the Democrats gave up,”
“You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.”

Source : Lillian Hellman (1943). “The North Star: A Motion Picture about Some Russian People”
“A fervently believed idea, even if wrong, dies hard.”
“We can't worry about competition. Besides, you aren't competing with anyone but yourself. They have nothing to do with whether you make a good movie or not.”
“Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.”
“God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over *all* areas of life or none.”

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