Barbara Quotes
She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink.
That means you're my kid, " I explained, "and I'm your mother, and nobody can say it isn't so.
Are we always to be wantingwhat isn't:the greenest grassaccord and principlemotherhood and career?Yet our age lies to uslike an asp, whispering. "Both.
Toys have taken over my family room. I watch Mary Poppins, and no matter how many spoonfuls of sugar I eat, action figures won’t march into a bin with the snap of my fingers.
The higher up I hold it, the less painful the hot wax.”…“Try hanging off the ceiling and dropping it from there.
That should give him time for another wank. It was a good job masturbating didn’t make you go blind.
So I've come to the conclusion that it is thus my own fault when these people I have been talking about finally stop saying "Ah" and tell me it's a pity I always do such odd things.
If you let yourself abandon the I-should-know-this-already attitude and simply accept your ignorance without giving yourself a hard time about it, then you can learn whatever it is you need to learn.
Writing is not a hobby. Collecting stamps or coins is a hobby. Writing is a calling.
Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greates gems of light.
Some of life's greatest calls were answered not by the head but by the body.
I gave up drinking coffee for you. I swapped pizza for produce, and this is what I get in return?
Her lips were burning with the lies she spoke and yet, he longed to kiss the fire.
Like a consolation prize, the broken heart is often granted wisdom.
He wanted AFFIRMATION rather than INFORMATION.
The love of humanity does not prevent us from being good journalists.
He seemed less in need of a secretary than of someone to listen to him.
Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous.
He was always the bridge, between men as well as between ideas.
The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live.
Seeing race is always about discriminating, a discerning, trained eye recognizing the "essential" or defining characteristic in the individual that confers racial categorization.
When you've learned to both see and not see the resemblance, then you see the uniqueness.
We have disagreements as to what race does and ought to mean, but we have a remarkable consensus on what it is, without any ability to define it technically.
We all have struggle in our lives. We're all searching for personal freedom, whether we're in a bad place or trying to be true to ourselves.
Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.
Joy blossoms in our hearts not as we try harder and harder to grow, but as we see more clearly the depth of our sin and understand more fully our helplessness.
In fact, the idea of a God who is both all-powerful and all good is a logical impossibility.
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.
What is assertive in a man can appear abrasive in a woman, and female leaders risk appearing too feminine or not feminine enough.
They hadnt enjoyed each others company in years. Talking led to screaming and both were sick of the fights.
Talent for oratory can simulate the need for action and even thought.
...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.
Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched somewhere trying to work out how to make fake jawbone jewelry that would look like the real thing.
As there would be no more inheritance, there would be no more greed. Peter Kropotkin
Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it.
Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.
I understood that no one could have lobbed such a stinging wad of shame out into the world without having a considerable personal reserve of it to draw on.
Extravagant sartorial display had a purpose. It created the impression of wealth and power on the opponent and pride in the wearer which has been lost sight of in our nervously egalitarian times.
Most of them don't know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what anticommunism is. The two are practically unrelated.
North Korea remains the last bastion of undiluted communism in the world.
The Englishman, as an American observed, felt himself the best-governed citizen in the world, even when in opposition he believed the incumbents were ruining the country.
The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tramples our rights and dignity.
Well, yeah, " Dovey said. "That's America. We watch shows about rich people's houses and their designer dresses and we drool. It's patriotic.