"Though it is fairly easy to describe what constitutes a bad home, there is no simple definition of a good one. Conformity with the traditional pattern certainly is no guarantee of the happiest results."

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Source : Alva Myrdal, Viola Klein (1968). “Women's two roles: home and work”, Routledge & Kegan Paul Books

Alva Myrdal

#Family Quotes #Home Quotes #Simple Quotes

“The Auteurs have become Luke Haines. I ate their bodies, spat out the pips, and sucked up their souls.”
“If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.”
“A PERSON WHO CANNOT FORGIVE HAS FORGOTTEN HOW GREAT A DEBT GOD HAS FORGIVEN THEM.”
“God is Spirit - without the Holy Spirit you cannot relate to Him.”
“Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential.”
“I don't feel like I have a normal day if I don't exercise or work out.”
“Is it acting a true vocation?... I say it is a gift...And fame? Neither sought nor expected... still confounds and amazes and disturbs. Whatever the reason... I am so very delighted that it did happen... I would not have missed it for the world...”
“There are a large number of people who can and do manage to lead decent upright lives with no use for a belief in God as a guide. Atheists do not care whether others believe as they do. They do ask, however, for the right to believe as they wish.”

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