Its imaginary value will increase with the years, and if he [his grandson-in-law] lives to my age, or another half century, he may... see it carried in the procession of our nation's birthday, as the relics of the saints are in those of the church.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for t...he most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today's fathers and mothers--with only the American dream for guidance--extend and overextend themselves, physically, emotionally,... and financially, during the best years of their lives to ensure that their children will grow up prepared to do better and go further than they did.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position... in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many of us carry memories of an influential teacher who may scarcely know we existed, yet who said something at just the right tim...e in our lives to snap a whole world into focus.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether t...hey are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be said ...to have arrived at self-possession.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The world men inhabit ... is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shar...ed; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »