"My ideals told me that men and women could both go out to work and be truly equal. My children told me something more complicated, something I really didn't want to hear. Their need for me was like the need for water or light: it had a devastating simplicity to it."

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Source : "Resistance is useless" by Allison Pearson, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2002.

Allison Pearson

#Children Quotes #Men Quotes #Light Quotes

“If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.”
“All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.”
“Most of the albums that have taken long have been related to illness and fatigue or producer problems.”
“But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 461, Curiosities of Literature, Pamphlets, 1922.
“A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.”
“Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine.”
“Your Heavenly Father needs you. His work, under the direction of our Savior Jesus Christ, needs what you are uniquely prepared to give.”
“This seclusion of the artist with his work, sometimes misconceived as a selfish thing, is in truth as needful a tool as any, if a vision is to be made clear to others. And all the men I have known do creative work obtained it; either mechanically, by the walls of a workroom, or by that withdrawal into themselves which is part of their power.”

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