Margaret Kennedy Quotes

#1. They are emotional gluttons, both of them. They gobbled up every sensation they could extract from marriage, and now they are seeing if separation won't provide them with a few more.

Margaret Kennedy

#2. Patience is the capacity to endure all that is necessary in attaining a desired end ... Patience never forsakes the ultimate goal because the road is hard. There can be no patience without an object.

Margaret Kennedy

#3. It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.

Margaret Kennedy

#4. Our kids are not here to comfort us, to entertain us, or to validate us. Those things need to come from ourselves and from other adults.

Margaret Kennedy

#5. We've all got to remember to pick our battles carefully, to be prepared to lose small ones, and to hold out for big ones.

Margaret Kennedy

#6. Acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure.

Margaret Kennedy

#7. Where the bedroom is wrong the whole house is wrong.

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#8. One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." There are few people who would actually want to share a life with someone who held that concept near and dear.

Margaret Kennedy

#9. Single parents in particular may have trouble maintaining themselves as authority figures because of underlying guilt; they feel acontinuing sense that they have deprived their kids of the second parent, and so they tend to give in to the children's requests, even when unreasonable.

Margaret Kennedy

#10. It's no use to worry about what people think. I never do. I used to. But when I saw that they'd really rather think wrong than right I gave it up.

Margaret Kennedy

#11. No matter how children came to be living with just one parent, they need to be told, again and again, that your family's configuration is the result of an adult decision or an act of fate that has nothing whatsoever to do with them.

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#12. Parents, whether or not we believe in a deity, know that to witness a child's mind searching for meaning is a miracle.

Margaret Kennedy