"Let the girl be thoroughly developed in body and soul, not modeled, like a piece of clay, after some artificial specimen of humanity, with a body like some plate in Godey's book of fashion, and a mind after the type of Father Gregory's pattern daughters, loaded down with the traditions, proprieties, and sentimentalities of generations of silly mothers and grandmothers, but left free to be, to grow, to feel, to think, to act. Development is one thing, that system of cramping, restraining, torturing, perverting, and mystifying, called education, is quite another."

-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Girl Quotes #Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes

“If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.”

Source : "How Ann Coulter and the Far Right Are Using the Lefty Playbook to Troll Berkeley" by Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. April 26, 2017.
“My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.”
“I asked Sunny if she would ever consider dating you. She said she would rather give birth to a porcupine on fire.”
“Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.”
“When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.”
“Hany Abu-Assad was sitting next to me, and his film 'Paradise Now' had won the Golden Globe. He said to me at the Globes, 'Paradise now, talk to you later.' [laughs] I gave him a big hug for that.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
“Life goes by fast. Enjoy it...Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things.”
“I did a picture for the First Barbie doll box.”

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