"Part a of scene from 'Bitterblue' between Madlen (Bitterblue's medicine woman) and Bitterblue: Madlen came to sit beside her [Bitterblue] on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?"

-- Kristin Cashore

#Mother Quotes #Queens Quotes #Jobs Quotes

“When he didn't answer, she didn't know if it was because he couldn't or if he was back to not talking to her. Back to pushing her out of his life. Men! Why was it that boys said girls were so hard to understand, when she hadn't known a single guy who hadn't confused her to the point of screaming?”
“Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the notion that one could use words freely, as one liked, without hard and fast rules of lexical conduct.”

Source : Simon Winchester (1998). “The surgeon of Crowthorne: a tale of murder, madness and the love of words”
“Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.”
“I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.”
“Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress.”

Source : Elsa Schiaparelli (1954). “Shocking Life”
“I am so smart. I am so smart. I am so smart. S-M-R-T ... Uh, I mean S-M-A-R-T.”
“Good posture is the one most important thing anybody can do now to look better.”
“It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion.”

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