"Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves."

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Source : "Are mothers harder on their daughters - and if so, why?" by Jenny Colgan, Luisa Dillner, Anne Karpf, Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2010.

Susie Orbach

#Mother Quotes #Daughter Quotes #Encouragement Quotes

“Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.”
“The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.”
“Over the years I have learned that creating art has made me happy. I used to be a lawyer and I'm much happier being an artist.”
“The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.”

Source : "Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo: Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair". Interview With Peter Guest, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2012.
“I don't know if you hear this often but I would say The Razor's Edge (loosely based on a great W. Somerset Maugham novel). This was Bill Murray's first dramatic role so everyone thought he stunk in this deep character but I thought he and the movie were great. The movie takes place over decades so you see Murray's character go from goofy playboy all the way to wiser, older person. It's basically a movie version of the journey I described.”
“But we're dying here.”
“I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.”
“There are times when I, without willing it, mount to the height of contemplation; with my will I am drawn down from it because of the limitations of human nature and find safety in abasement. I know many things that are unknown to most men, yet I am more ignorant than all others. I rejoice because Christ, 'whom I have believed' (II Tim. 1:12), has bestowed on me an eternal and unshakable kingdom, yet I constantly weep as one who is unworthy of that which is above, and I cease not.”

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