Today, only a fool would offer herself as the singular role model for the Good Mother. Most of us know not to tempt the fates. The... moment I felt sure I had everything under control would invariably be the moment right before the principal called to report that one of my sons had just driven somebody's motorcycle through the high school gymnasium.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's sad but true that if you focus your attention on housework and meal preparation and diapers, raising children does start to l...ook like drudgery pretty quickly. On the other hand, if you see yourself as nothing less than your child's nurturer, role model, teacher, spiritual guide, and mentor, your days take on a very different cast.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are the...ir daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those years ...of infancy and puberty, adolescence and young adulthood. That's when she needs you at her side.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When you model, the focus is completely on you, and some people really appreciate the attention, especially if they didn't get it ...growing up. You're being drawn; you're being looked at. There's a sense of acceptance that comes from that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth... Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to b...ecome a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes. The object of study is the garment, not the figure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The primary imperative for women who intend to assume a meaningful and decisive role in today's social change is to begin to perce...ive themselves as having an identity and personal integrity that has as strong a claim for being preserved intact as that of any other individual or group.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »