"The less obvious hurdle is that of preparing parents emotionally and putting forward realistic images of parenthood and motherhood. There also needs to be some sort of acknowledgement that not everyone should parent - when parenting is a given, it's not fully considered or thought out, and it gives way too easily to parental ambivalence and unhappiness."

-- Jessica Valenti

#Motherhood Quotes #Giving Quotes #Parent Quotes

“To understand water is to understand the cosmos, the marvels of nature, and life itself.”

Source : Masaru Emoto (2011). “The Hidden Messages in Water”, p.19, Simon and Schuster
“I wish I could wear clothes straight off the runway.”
“A man who tries to make the workmen believe that their employers are their natural enemies is indeed the worst enemy of workmen. For the employees of yesterday are the employers of today, and the employees of today can and will partly be the employers of tomorrow.”
“A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror”
“As for me: I loyally remained right where I was, remembering the very first I had ever seen the boy and then just now, the very last time-and all the times in between. The deep aching grief I knew I would feel would come soon enough, but at that moment mostly what I felt was peace, secure in the knowledge that by living my life the way I had, everything had come down to this moment. I had fulfilled my purpose.”
“Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.”
“By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.”
“If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you;?and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds.”

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