"I'm pretty low-maintenance, but I like my time to myself, and once you have a child, you have to fight for it. I remember the first long bath I took [after Ptolemy's birth] was such a moment. Because a lot of the time you're in the shower, and if that baby cries, you've got to turn off the water and go!"

-- Gretchen Mol

#Baby Quotes #Children Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“When I get older, I don't think I'll like to have wrinkles, or a big jelly belly. I cannot have it.”
“My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.”
“Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.”
“There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.”
“One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!”
“Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself. Stop looking in the other way of looking.”
“I know this body is impatient. I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind. Yet I loved, I love. I want no sentimentality. I want no more than home.”

Source : Robert Creeley (2006). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975–2005”, p.495, Univ of California Press
“Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.”

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