"I vote, I challenge Bathymaasy and we shoot arrows at you dearest brother.' ArtemisSet and Bathymaas laughed.Apollo, not so much."
Sherrilyn Kenyon
"Motherhood was a twenty-four-hour-a-day, all-encompassing job. It was the hardest job I ever had. Everything that happened to you [her child] happened to me. I had once heard children described in a novel as 'hostages to fortune' and certainly my happiness depended on yours."
Amy Poehler
"Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me."
Wendell Berry
"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
"My mother was a medical records librarian and wonderful with us girls. She sewed a lot of our clothes - really glamorous, beautiful clothes - and I think that's part of why I was so successful when I went off to Paris; she'd made me all these wonderful clothes to take."
Jerry Hall
"Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages."
Daniel Goleman
"I come from a culture of handwringers, vengeance seekers, people who name children after ancestors by rote -- first child, paternal grandfather, second child, maternal, and on and on and on."
Julia Glass
"And sometimeswhen she does remember,she calls me her little angeland she knows where she isand everything is all rightfor a second or a minuteand then we cry;she for the life that she lostI for the woman I only know about through the stories of her children."
Rebecca Rijsdijk
"Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family."
Clare Boothe Luce
"My parents got me a sewing machine for Christmas during my senior year of high school. I made three pieces of clothing and had a fashion show at the end of the year, where we had to wear the clothes that we made. I took it to a whole new level; I made all my friends clothes."
Kourtney Kardashian
"What I miss the most is chatting with my friends and family and having a good laugh over a simple meal."
Kim Yuna
"Is there a magical time when children become parents to their parents?"
Ralph Webster
"Daddy,' I whispered, feeling my own breath hitch in my throat. 'I love you.'Just when I was sure he was asleep, the one corner of his mouth lifted in a smile. 'I knew that,' he murmured. 'Always knew that."
Morgan Matson
"People say a mother is only as happy as her least happy child. But what if the state of that child's happiness has become a mystery? What if that child is no longer a child but a young man who has removed himself to a great distance and encased himself in silence?"
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