I'd never needed to know that my sister was a screamer. Never. That Mal was a screamer too just kind of confused me.
Kylie Scott
"When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality."
Frances O'Grady
"...A row of tables manned by seated, serious women. Each woman looked like she could be someone's least-favourite aunt."
Adam Rex
"It’s such a relief to know these are universal truths for so many of us in the adoption triad. Gosh, how much easier things could have been for you, for me, and your folks, if literature like this had been around, say, five, ten years ago, when we could’ve all really used it."
Paula Gruben
Inspiration
Because we are the only women who are mothers of men.' Gorgo: when asked by a woman from Attica why Spartan women were the only women in the world who could rule men.
Gorgos
"I want people to take the initiative to find veterans that need help, veterans that are suffering and in need of assistance reintegrating from combat back into society, into normal family lives and jobs. We need to take a real 'boots on the ground' approach to helping veterans in need."
Max Martini
"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
Inspiration
Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me.
Wendell Berry
"My memory of my household is of one immersed in books and music. I have a very intimate relationship with Bengali literature, particularly Tagore, and my interest besides reading then was music."
Siddhartha Mukherjee
"I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad."
Luke Evans
Inspiration
On this National Agriculture Day, when we all should be taking time to thank and pay tribute to America's farmers, ranchers and their families who produce the food for our tables, we are finding those same people in dire need of our help and support.
Michael McCaul
"The Hubbermanns had two of their own (children), but they were older and had moved out...Soon they would be both in the war. One would be making bullets. The other would be shooting them."
Markus Zusak
"I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man."
Eric Idle
"Christopher Walken and Nathalie Baye played my parents so well that I really thought I was in my living room at Christmas. My mother couldn't have been played more correctly."
Frank Abagnale
"I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, 'I'm like you - I'm frustrated, I'm not an expert, I don't have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I'm selfish too.'."
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