"Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers."

-- Norman Douglas

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Animal Quotes

“To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.”
“I don't have to ask you where you've been, cause the matches in your purse say Holiday Inn.”
“The establishment of the state of Israel is not the result of the Holocaust. It is almost a result of the fact that the Holocaust was not totally successful.”
“In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.”
“Like most other creatives, I struggle with self-sabotage, self-doubt, and feeling like an imposter more often than not. I struggle with expressing myself, because it does sometimes feel easier or safer not to.”
“A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.”

Source : John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket
“continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring. ... Now that we have secured possession of the tools of citizenship, we intend to use them not to copy men's models but to produce our own.”

Source : Ray Strachey, Eleanor Florence Rathbone (1936). “Our freedom and its results”
“Certainly it is important to work hard for your children, but if the only legacy you can give them is money it is a poor legacy indeed.”

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