I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late ...to alter events, or to make a difference in living.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. "Resist...ance to tyranny is obedience to God."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I doubt that I would have taken so many leaps in my own writing or been as clear about my feminist and political commitments if I ...had not been anointed as early as I was. Some major form of recognition seems to have to mark a woman's career for her to be able to go out on a limb without having her credentials questioned.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Two myths must be shattered: that of the evil stepparent . . . and the myth of instant love, which places unrealistic demands on a...ll members of the blended family. . . . Between the two opposing myths lies reality. The recognition of reality is, I believe, the most important step toward the building of a successful second family.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most important is the recognition that stepparenting is different from primary parenting. It can be just as satisfying, it can be ...a reciprocally loving and caring relationship between parent and child, and it can provide some very good moments when it works, but it is different.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Awareness of having better things to do with their lives is the secret to immunizing our children against false values--whether pr...esented on television or in "real life." The child who finds fulfillment in music or reading or cooking or swimming or writing or drawing is not as easily convinced that he needs recognition or power or some "high" to feel worthwhile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By now, legions of tireless essayists and op-ed columnists have dressed feminists down for making such a fuss about entering the p...rofessions and earning equal pay that everyone's attention has been distracted from the important contributions of mothers working at home. This judgment presumes, of course, that prior to the resurgence of feminism in the '70s, housewives and mothers enjoyed wide recognition and honor. This was not exactly the case.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... my last work is no sooner on the stands than letters come, suggesting a subject. The grandmothers of strangers are crying from... the grave, it seems, for literary recognition; it is bewildering, the number of salty grandfathers, aunts and uncles that languish unappreciated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tragedy, as you know, is always a fait accompli, whereas terror always has to do with anticipation, with man's recognition of his ...own negative potential--with his sense of what he is capable of.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »