"The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because there is really no such thing as age-appropriate dressing any longer, as I know because my wardrobe is interchangeable with my daughter's."

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Source : "Rachel Johnson: 'To anyone under 20 I'm basically Methuselah'" by Rachel Johnson, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2012.

Rachel Johnson

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Age Quotes

“I had much more money than you ever need in your life to live on. So I was giving computer labs to school districts. I was - but then I decided you should really give yourself.”
“Earthly families all look different. And while we do the best we can to create strong traditional families, membership in the family of God is not contingent upon any kind of statusâ€”marital status, parental status, financial status, social status, or even the kind of status we post on social media. â€¦”
“But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.”
“Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If we want the whole world to be rich, we need to start loving wealth. In the difference between poverty and plenty, the problem is the pverty, not the difference. Wealth is good.”
“Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet.”
“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
“Although I knew enough Freud to believe that the sex urge was an important mainspring of life, it still seemed to me that any conscious manifestation of sex was necessarily ludicrous. Defecation and copulation were two activities which made a human being totally ridiculous. At least the former could be conducted in private, but the latter by definition demanded a partner. I discovered, though, that whenever I ventured this opinion, people took it as a joke.”

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