"I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves."

-- Joyce Maynard

#Mother Quotes #Daughter Quotes #Encouragement Quotes

“I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.”
“You cannot say you've achieved equality until EVERYONE is equal and has equal opportunities!”
“If by noise you mean uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me.”
“In addition to inviting us to hold personal and family scripture study, Heavenly Father wants us to regularly study and apply what we have learned in conference. I testify that those who put their trust in the Lord and heed this counsel in faith will gain great strength to bless themselves and their families for generations to come.”
“If you look at the New Testament, it's a gospel of love. Yes, there's talk of judgement and there's talk of heaven and there's talk of people not getting into heaven, but it doesn't seem to me that the fundamental message of the gospels was one of guilt and retribution so much as love.”
“I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them, get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite it's really true. It takes confidence and courage to know that and then commit to it.”
“My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.”
“The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it.”

Source : Hortense Calisher (2013). “Standard Dreaming: A Novella”, p.48, Open Road Media

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