"Every second, every day, every year, we fail to address demand for reproductive health and family planning services. Lives are lost, and girls' opportunities to thrive and contribute to their country's development shrink. These are real people."
Jenny Shipley
"Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything."
Oliver Hudson
"One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family."
Jonathan Safran Foer
"A grandmother’s love is selfless all the way to the bones."
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
"My grandmother did all the cooking at Christmas. We ate fattened chicken. We would feed it even more so it would be big and fat."
Alain Ducasse
"It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying."
Ron Suskind
"Your father... Doesn't work late for you to pinch his dinner."
Susan Cooper
"My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it."
Haruki Murakami
"When a woman births, not only is a baby being born but so is a mother. How we treat her will affect how she feels about herself as a mother and as a parent.Be gentle. Be kind. Listen."
Ruth Ehrhardt
"I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'."
Peter Mullan
"So I'll send my parents money, and maybe they can get a bigger place, too. They can even relax when they're older, the way they deserve to. Without having to worry about how they're going to survive. But for now, I'm the one who has to survive."
Susane Colasanti
"To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way."
Alexander McCall Smith
"...If I were an angel of the Lord, I would mark the doors of each of my children's homes with an X, so that plague and misfortune would pass over them. Alas, I lack the qualifications. So when there was still world and time enough I fretted. I nagged. I corrected. I got everything wrong."
Mordecai Richler
"I have a 6-year-old niece who doesn't look like the majority of girls on the covers of magazines. I hope that by the time she's 16, the world will have changed."
Prabal Gurung
"I look at old photos and it gives me joy and and tells me about the best time I spent with people but they always left a feeling of loneliness & things I missed and I don't feel connected to them at all."
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