I could be, I discovered, by turns stern, loving, wise, silly, youthful, aged, racial, universal, indulgent, strict, with a remark...ably easy and often cunning detachment ... various ways that an adult, spurred by guilt, by annoyance, by condescension, by loneliness, deals with the prerogatives of power and love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If there is a price to pay for the privilege of spending the early years of child rearing in the driver's seat, it is our reluctan...ce, our inability, to tolerate being demoted to the backseat. Spurred by our success in programming our children during the preschool years, we may find it difficult to forgo in later states the level of control that once afforded us so much satisfaction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready sadd...led and bridled to be ridden.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
tea, a decoction that enlarges the spleen and warpest the brain, or lightly floating the spirit for a while at last lands it in a ...dry place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »