With two sons born eighteen months apart, I operated mainly on automatic pilot through the ceaseless activity of their early child...hood. I remember opening the refrigerator late one night and finding a roll of aluminum foil next to a pair of small red tennies. Certain that I was responsible for the refrigerated shoes, I quickly closed the door and ran upstairs to make sure I had put the babies in their cribs instead of the linen closet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the vice president thinks it's disgraceful for an unmarried woman to bear a child, and if he believes that a woman cannot adequ...ately raise a child without a father, then he'd better make sure that abortion remains safe and legal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it does...n't go to my head.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No man is quite sane; each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of ho...lding him hard to some one point which nature has taken to heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As a parent, you can play three important roles in teaching your children about sex. As a model for your child, your own comfort l...evel can instill a sense of confidence and trust that will reinforce his or her healthy curiosity about the world. As an information source, you can make sure that curiosity is satisfied with clear and accurate facts about the body, the sexes, and how babies are made. Finally, as a guide to values, you can guarantee that the messages your child receives about sex are invested with the family values you want to instill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a child becomes an adult . . . the elders are fearful. And for good reason . . . not we but they are the germinators of futur...e generations. Will they leave us behind as we did our parents? Consign us to neatly paved retirement villages? Trample us in the dust as they go flying out to their new galaxies? We had better tie them down, flagellate them, isolate them in the family cocoon, . . . indoctrinate them into the tribal laws and make sure they kneel before the power of the elders.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whet...her anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »