Gay Parenting Quotes & Sayings

The future must no longer be determined by the past. I do not deny that
the effects of the past are still with us. But I refuse to strengthen them
by repeating them, to confer upon them an irremovability the equivalent
of destiny, to confuse the biological and the cultural. Anticipation
is imperative. — Helene Cixous

We became astronomers thinking we were studying the universe, and now we learn that we are just studying the 5 or 10 percent that is luminous. — Vera Rubin

Life was running,
running after a mirage-like desires.
I met him, by chance,
resting for a night
on a bank of Time.
observed him like a
seer does.
pinched to awaken. — Suman Pokhrel

Once Mo had closed the gates, he returned to his little stone hut, and his half-eaten sandwich of butter and canned sardines, and his mug of thick hot chocolate, which every night he poured carefully into a thermos labeled COFFEE. — Lauren Oliver

first thing they teach you about parenting is that it's a surrender of control. Okay: — Jason Gay

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it. — Oliver Stone

I envision a world filled with women traveling alone and meeting each other on the path. — SARK

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community. — Audre Lorde

Often men who have been emotionally neglected and abused as children by dominating mothers bond with assertive women, only to have their childhood feelings of being engulfed surface. While they could not 'smash their mommy' and still receive love, they find that they can engage in intimate violence with partners who respond to their acting out by trying harder to connect with them emotionally, hoping that the love offered in the present will heal the wounds of the past. If only one party in the relationship is working to create love, to create the space of emotional connection, the dominator model remains in place and the relationship just becomes a site for continuous power struggle. — Bell Hooks

Fifteen-year-old girls produce children with sixteen-year-old boys in the backseat of cars and in the stairwells of apartment buildings. Why can't two loving adults who have contemplated parenthood and are prepared to offer love, patience, and devotion come up with enough chromosomal matter to stick together and create a child? — Scott Simon

Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking. — Mahatma Gandhi

I think constraints are very important. They're positive, because they allow you to work off something. — Charles Gwathmey

We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves. — V.S. Naipaul

Gay people getting married is not a threat to the institution of marriage. You know what's a threat to the institution of marriage? Infidelity is! Hate is! Unforgiveness is! Apathy is! Coldheartedness is! Fear is! And you know what's a threat to the kids? It's not having gay parents! Most gay kids have straight parents! And plenty of gay parents raise respectable, straight kids! The threat to children isn't their parents being gay; the threat to children is their parents not loving one another! Not caring for one another! Not being crazy about each other! Domestic violence is a threat to children. Stupidity is a threat to children. A swimming pool in the backyard with no supervision is a threat to children! — C. JoyBell C.

Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no better alternative. — Ridley Scott

All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn. — Ray Bradbury

Social service that savours of patronage is not service. — Mahatma Gandhi

I'd hate to see you get cancer, but that's your problem, not mine. — Steve Lonegan

Look, they're wearing light blue gauzy frozen superhero capes because I have told them that Anna is a junior superhero with a black sister and a gay brother- both of whom are off ruling other countries because, y'know, they have jobs. You do your mothering your way. I'll do my mothering mine . — Shonda Rhimes

He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing. — Alan Hansen