"The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good."

-- Rachel Cusk

#Mother Quotes #Wine Quotes #Reality Quotes

“Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male.”
“I would also like to mention pianists like Michel Petrucciani or Chick Ð¡orea for whom I have great admiration in the jazz field.”
“If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.”
“We go wherever God leads whenever God moves us...because we love His glory more than we love our lives.”
“The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.”
“We can be satisfied with moderate confidence in ourselves and with a moderately good opinion of ourselves, but the faith we have in a holy cause has to be extravagant and uncompromising.”
“I had a 20-year, stellar government career.”

Source : "Linda Tripp on 'Larry King Live'". www.cnn.com. February 9, 2001.
“I would prefer a public option that would be a competitive option that would allow people to buy into a Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, which is a series of private plans.”

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