Kristines Designer Quotes & Sayings

The technological efficiency of daughter-proofing a pregnancy may make it seem as if the girl shortage is a problem of modernity, but female infanticide has been documented in China and India for more than two thousand years.119 In China, midwives kept a bucket of water at the bedside to drown the baby if it was a girl. In India there were many methods: "giving a pill of tobacco and bhang to swallow, drowning in milk, smearing the mother's breast with opium or the juice of the poisonous Datura, or covering the child's mouth with a plaster of cow-dung before it drew breath." Then and now, even when daughters are suffered to live, they may not last long. Parents allocate most of the available food to their sons, and as a Chinese doctor explains, "if a boy gets sick, the parents may send him to the hospital at once, but if a girl gets sick, the parents may say to themselves, 'Well, we'll see how she is tomorrow. — Steven Pinker

I need to write to be happy. — Nora Roberts

My brother is somewhere in here." She paused and added in an almost inaudible voice, "I think."
Owen bit back an oath. He'd been raised not to swear around ladies, but as she'd pointed out, it was going to be a long trip if he had to mind his manners when the goddamned woman was going to be so provoking. "I knew this was going to be a total waste of time. — Joan Johnston

It doesn't matter who you come from. It matters who you become. — Suzanne Young

The moment of victory is too short to live for that alone. — Martina Navratilova

For intellectuals, everyone's mind is closed but their own. — Anthony Daniels

Whether we are poets or parents or teachers or artists or gardeners, we must start where we are and use what we have. In the process of creation and relationship, what seems mundane and trivial may show itself to be a holy, precious part of a pattern. — Luci Shaw

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It's natural. — Munshi Premchand

I'm in favor of anything that promotes greener solutions. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think. — Bobby Scott