Maternal Influence Quotes

#1. Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#2. First kisses didn't necessarily require darkness and alcohol, they could happen in the open air, with the sun warm on your face and everything around you honest and real and true.

Liane Moriarty

#3. Dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.

Natalie Babbitt

#4. The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It's to survive as yourself, undiminished.

Elia Kazan

#5. He knew that so long as the vestiges of his old self remained with him, his new self would never be safe from ridicule and incomprehension.

A. Igoni Barrett

#6. Lesson learned. I was a monster. I would never forget that again.

Julie Kagawa

#7. Children are sacred beings.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. *Brian talking about baby Alex* - Just give him his bottle and sit watching metal videos with him until he goes back to sleep, right? How hard can it be?

Cherrie Lynn

#9. Didn't you read the invitation? There's going to be a game in a little while
the big Twister game in an hour. Make sure you eat plenty of bread.

Elle Lothlorien

#10. When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, 'How can you write a middle-aged woman this well?' I said, 'If you met my mom you wouldn't ask'.

Joss Whedon

#11. We've won wars before and we've certainly retained our rights as Americans.

Patrick Leahy