Drapkin Donald Quotes & Sayings

In the agricultural age, women conceived younger and had many more children because children were economic assets as workers on the farm. In the postindustrial age, children are emotional assets but economic liabilities, costing both a middle-class husband and wife or a single parent over $10,000 a year. — Rachel Lehmann-Haupt

But she definitely had my vote. — James Patterson

A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw it in the wastebasket." The assumption is that one or the other choice is the right move. No. Almost everything we say or think or do - or write - comes in that spacious human area bounded by something this side of the sublime and something above the unforgivable. — William Stafford

I was there in your forgetting, until I was forgot. — Lang Leav

It's that he persists in the bizarre, adolescent belief that getting to have sex with whomever one wants whenever one wants to is a cure for human despair. — David Foster Wallace

They never let Rider [Strong] and I do scenes together because we would look at each other and start laughing, — Will Friedle

I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if in any instance the weak passions of my sex should damp the fortitude, the patriotism, and the manly resolution of yours. May nothing ever check that glorious spirit of freedom which inspires the patriot in the cabinet, and the hero in the field, with courage to maintain their righteous cause, and to endeavor to transmit the claim to posterity, even if they must seal the rich conveyance to their children with their own blood. — Mercy Otis Warren

What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and there would be books. — Alice Dalgliesh

When I do something, I do it all the way. I've been in show business so many years. I've achieved a lot of things. — Celine Dion