"It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years."

-- Meg Tilly

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Children Quotes

“The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature.”

Source : Phyllis McGinley (1965). “Sixpence in Her Shoe”
“Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn't obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness became attractive, girls did unnatural things to be thin.”

Source : Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.165, Penguin
“Soccer and sports are entertainment ... You can't call Beethoven's 9th Symphony or a work of Shakespeare `entertainment.' It's not `entertainment.' It's culture.”
“I'm generally not a social dramatist or comedy writer. My interests have always been more in psychological stories or personal relations and comic ideas.”
“But in Afghanistan, the general rule was that since you were fighting the Taliban, which was not a lawful government force, the Geneva Conventions did not apply. And that led to a lot of excesses in Afghanistan, excesses like Abu Ghraib that were already well-publicized.”
“Everest? Don't forget it's really just a big pile of rocks.”
“Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.”
“Everything bad has... you know, has a good.”

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