The beaux and the babies, the servant troubles, and the social aspirations of the other girls seemed to me superficial. My work di...d not. I was professional. I could earn my own money, or I could be fired if I were inefficient. It was something to get your teeth into. It was living.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In preparing the soil for planting, you will need several tools. Dynamite would be a beautiful thing to use, but it would have a t...endency to get the dirt into the front-hall and track up the stairs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Would you--be good enough--" Alice panted out, after running a little further, "to stop a minute--just to get--one's breath again...?" "I'm good enough," the King said, "only I'm not strong enough. You see, a minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even assuming the possibility of greater knowledge among responsive young children of a mass media age, it is questionable whether... an increase in verbal knowledge and expression has much effect on the capacity for understanding in depth or on the style of behavior of children with no more than five years of living and growing behind them.... The drawings of contemporary fives are no more complex, the capacity for judgment no sharper, the feelings of helplessness when they get sick or into trouble no less painful than they have ever been, as far as we know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put t...hem on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measure in the make o...f all things, the most likely way therefore to get any insight into the nature of those parts of the Creation which come within our observation must in all reason be to number, weigh and measure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Staying in charge as a mother means exercising one's own judgment about what is best for one's child. It means, at times, disregar...ding the advice of experts. It means fighting one's way into institutional decision making in an effort to make it responsive to the needs of one's own child. It means trusting one's own point of view. Most of all, it means developing the ability to tolerate both the internal anxiety and the external hostility that are generated when one tries to stay in charge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »