Quotes & Sayings About Drifting Away From Your Best Friend

Like so many other things in the previous year, my politics had also been retooled by maternity. I began to suspect that modern feminism had gotten it at least partly wrong ... In devaluing the home and the vast range of domestic work
childrearing included
and in fighting a fight largely for the right to work outside the home, the modern feminist movement ignored a singular power already available to women and, maybe more important, to the collective imagination. Rather than fighting to re-invent the home, or to effect a real transformation of values, or to legitimize and legalize the domestic and childrearing work that so many women engage in
which is necessary to support any mother's work outside the home
we have found it easier to map power where it already existed. Is this really my only choice? Between the intense demands of an academic career (supported by full-time childcare) and the mind-deadening contemplation of Cheerios? — Lisa Catherine Harper

The only way to reduce ugliness in the world is to reduce it in yourself, — David Brooks

And that is all anyone can do, try to be honest about what he feels, what he's seen or thinks he's seen. — Paul Theroux

Now look: Droplets of oil were dotted across the front of her best dress, over the mound of her stomach. She was clumsy and fat-stomached and she didn't even have the sense to wear an apron while she was cooking. Also she had paid way too much for this dress, sixty-four dollars at Hecht's, which would scandalize Ira if he knew. How could she have been so greedy? She dabbed at her nose with the back of her hand. Took a deep breath. Well. Anyhow. — Anne Tyler

And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done. — Eli Wallach

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product. — Adam Osborne

Love is just a chocolate substitute. — Melanie Clark Pullen

Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: 'St.' It's a much more difficult degree to attain. It takes a lifetime, and you don't get your diploma until you're dead. — Mother Angelica

This is certainly not to excuse the violence that exists on TV and films and on the Internet. But the truth is that wherever you go in Europe, there are American films and TV shows that are just as popular as at home. And you don't have that sense of violence in any other place other than America. — Irwin Winkler

Good storytelling lets the audience relive events in the present so they can understand the forces, choices, and emotions that led the character to do what he did. — John Truby

The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid cruelties and murders it ascribes to Him are repugnant to our ideas of His justice. — Thomas Paine

Today we are not only testing and grading our children into the ground, but we are not teaching them how to see and understand the deep meaning of what they learn, or to perceive the connectedness of information about the world. It is indeed time to try something different. — Betty Edwards

If you say one thing, and do something different, how can your conscience trust you? Self-trust comes from integrity. — Ilchi Lee

Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated. — Andy Hargreaves

What is creative is the seeking of perfection - and not attaining it. — Semir Zeki