Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.
I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.
If you know someone who has lost a child, and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died-you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift.
She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.
My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.
You don't have to love animals to recognize that it is immoral and unjust to exploit them. But if you do love animals, but you continue to participate in their exploitation, you need to rethink your idea of what love means.
It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on.
Those fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She had common-sense too, and what man wanted the plainly matter-of-fact, when he could enjoy instead Sophia's delicious folly?
Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom