"If womenâ€™s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home."

-- Betty Friedan

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Home Quotes

“He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside â€” why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?" He sounded faintly sad. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening â€” I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die. Then he said I was probably too young to understand him; but I understood perfectly.”

Source : Dodie Smith, Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Your Daughter: I Capture the Castle & The Secret Garden”, p.123, Random House
“Discrimination is a disease.”
“When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from all forms of time . . . when you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors . . . and the world will step in and help.”
“If you go through life and actually get to find out the thing you want to do, you're very lucky.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, and entirely contrary to Holy Scripture.”
“I wish I could say I see my little brother more. We used to fight all the time but now that I don't see him very often I cherish the time I have with him.”
“I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.”
“It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.”

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