Regularity and Decorum. 'Tis what we women-authors, in particular, have been thought greatly deficient in; and I should be concern...ed to find it an objection not to be removed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The attempt to be an ideal parent, that is, to behave correctly toward the child, to raise her correctly, not to give to little or... too much, is in essence an attempt to be the ideal child--well behaved and dutiful--of one's own parents. But as a result of these efforts the needs of the child go unnoticed. I cannot listen to my child with empathy if I am inwardly preoccupied with being a good mother; I cannot be open to what she is telling me.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 »
Some rhyme a neebor's name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu' cash;... Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An' raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way ...is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every man is born an Aristotelian or a Platonist. I do not think it possible that anyone born an Aristotelian can become a Platoni...st; and I am sure that no born Platonist can ever change into an Aristotelian. They are two classes of man, beside which it is next to impossible to conceive a third. The one considers reason a quality or attribute; the other considers it a power.... Aristotle was, and still is, the sovereign lord of the understanding--the faculty judging by the senses. He was a conceptualist, and never could raise himself into that higher state, which was natural to Plato, and has been so to others, in which the understanding is distinctly contemplated, and, as it were, looked down upon from the throne of actual ideas, or living, inborn, essential truths.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurryin...g existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer--committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To whatsoever upright mind, to whatsoever beating heart I speak, to you it is committed to educate men. By simple living, by an il...limitable soul, you inspire, you correct, you instruct, you raise, you embellish all. By your own act you teach the beholder how to do the practicable. According to the depth from which you draw your life, such is the depth not only of your strenuous effort, but of your manners and presence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »