Merelyn Hallowell Quotes & Sayings

Over the course of the 1970s conservatives made the endangered child into a kind of political and rhetorical abstraction, a way of thinking about the country and its citizens that could help advance a wide range of policy initiatives. They opposed the counterculture on the grounds that rock and roll caused adolescents to lose respect for family life. They promoted the War on Drugs with racially tinged morality tales about addicted inner-city mothers and, crucially, the "superpredator" "crack babies" to whom those mothers supposedly gave birth. (That particular epidemic was later shown to be a myth.)40 And when Anita Bryant led a campaign to allow Dade County to discriminate against homosexuals in hiring teachers for public schools, she named the effort "Save Our Children." The fear that tied all of these campaigns together was of the ease with which children could be victimized or else corrupted and turned against the society that was supposed to nurture them. — Richard Beck

The very thought of him coming so close to tasting you makes me want to split his head in two. — Kenya Wright

Successful people ask a lot more questions during sales calls than do their less successful colleagues. We found that these less successful people tend to do most of the talking. — Neil Rackham

In the divorce my ex got everything. Even kept her composure. — Tom Franklin

I'm not rewarding unrequested, lazy singers with their aggressive pudding demands. — Jenny Lawson

Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who've seen the world together. — Tahereh Mafi