"By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information."

-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Children Quotes #Information Quotes #Difficult Quotes

“I was like any other inner-city kid with a chip on his shoulder because his daddy and his mommy wasn't together.”
“Of course, I would be depressed sometimes, and my Mom would be worried about me because I would just sleep to escape. Cause I was so scared of being a musician or artist, or whatever you want to call it.”
“We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother”
“I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.”
“I'll suffer no daughter of mine to play the fool with her heart, indeed! She shall marry for the purpose for which matrimony was ordained amongst people of birth--that is, for the aggrandisement of her family, the extending of their political influence--for becoming, in short, the depository of their mutual interest. These are the only purposes for which persons of rank ever think of marriage.”

Source : Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1881). “Marriage [by S.E. Ferrier]. Edinb. ed”
“The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.”
“Them haters in your face you just ignore them. Don't know what they talking sh-t for.”
“And so he did his endless work,' I continued quietly, 'without feeling, without pity, without rest, for to open his heart to these would be to open his heart to his loneliness and longing and that was beyond bearing.”

Source : Martine Leavitt (2016). “Keturah and Lord Death”, p.43, Highlights Press

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