"You donâ€™t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You donâ€™t owe it to your mother, you donâ€™t owe it to your children, you donâ€™t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked â€˜femaleâ€™."

-- Erin McKean

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Men Quotes

“In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.”
“Don't treat people as you think they are, treat them as you think they are capable of becoming.”

Source : John Marsden (2010). “While I Live: The Ellie Chronicles 1: The Ellie Chronicles”, p.63, Pan Australia
“I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the school's curriculum. It should be to look at the idea that, maybe, the child didn't work hard enough.”
“In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else Ive ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.”
“Your condition is NOT your conclusion.”
“If you turn it over to the universe, you will be surprised and dazzled by what is delivered to you. This is where magic and miracles happen.”
“The artist is the only lover; he alone has the pure vision of beauty, and love is the vision of the soul when it is permitted to gaze upon immortal beauty.”
“We have no basis to conclude she [Hillary Clinton] lied to the FBI.”

Source : Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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