Anne of Austria (with great submission to a Crowned Head do I say it) was a B----. She had spirit and courage without parts, devot...ion without common morality, and lewdness without tenderness either to justify or to dignify it. Her two sons were no more Lewis the Thirteen's than they were mine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And b...lack men must forgive black women for our own sometimes dubious choices, divided loyalties, and lack of belief in their possibilities. Only when our sons and our daughters know that forgiveness is real, existent, and that those who love them practice it, can they form bonds as men and women that really can save and change our community.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tell me of John or Shaun? Who were Shem and Shaun the living sons or daughters of? Night now! Tell me, tell me, tell, elm! Telmeta...le of stern or stone. Beside the rivering waters of, hitherandthithering waters of. Night!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prizing a male child, although seemingly an old fashioned notion, is still widespread.... This strong desire for boys in the famil...y translates into a difference in fathering. Studies show that men play with boy babies more than girl babies and in general are more involved with their families if they have at least one son. Marriages, on average, last longer if there is a son. Even divorced fathers tend to see their sons more than their daughters (at least until adolescence).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We're not always aware of subliminal messages we send, like "Big boys don't cry" or "Stop whining," which is a reflection of socie...ty's credo that men should not show their emotions. Boys and men are not inherently less emotional than women; they are taught to be that way, which means that mothers and fathers have an important responsibility in raising sons who are aware of their emotions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With sympathy and with reverence we greet you on the soil ennobled by the blood of your courageous sons, whose sacrifices have cre...ated a bond between us which can never be broken. The world cannot measure your tragic loss. You have suffered in silence and alone with courage and love. You have given to the Great Cause something more precious than your own life blood. And the altar of freedom is wet with your tears.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Being the sons of mothers whose husbands had blundered rather brutally through their feminine sanctities, they were themselves too... diffident and shy. They could easier deny themselves than incur any reproach from a woman; for a woman was like their mother, and they were full of the sense of their mother. They preferred themselves to suffer the misery of celibacy, rather than risk the other person.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are about to enter and occupy...and you defeat them, then you must utterl...y destroy them. Make no covenant with them and show them no mercy. Do not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, for that would turn away your children from following me, to serve other gods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »