![She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.](/assets/img/quote-photos/she-my-mother-gave-me-permission-to-wonder-to-dawdle-to-daydream.jpg)
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mother jobs aunt
Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like Im sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But its not supposed to be that way. Carole Bouquet
mother daughter men
The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters. Carol P. Christ
mother father race
Theologians frequently assert that God has no body, no gender, no race and no age. Most people state that God is neither male nor female. Yet most people become flustered, upset or even angry when it is suggested that the God they know as Lord and Father might also be God the Mother, or Goddess.
mother thinking discovery
I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations. Carol Shields
mother children unique
I couldn't have been a novelist without being a mother. It gives you a unique witness point of the growth of a personality. It was a kind of biological component for me that had to come first. My children gave this other window on the world.
mother country struggle
The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now. Carol Moseley Braun
mother father warrior
My benefactor told me that my father and mother had lived and died just to have me, and that their own parents had done the same for them. He said that warriors were different in that they shift their assemblage points enough to realize the tremendous price that has been paid for their lives. This shift gives them the respect and awe that their parents never felt for life in general, or for being alive in particular. Carlos Castaneda
mother running listening
You're in a terrible spot. It's too late for you to retreat but too soon to act. All you can do is witness. You're in the miserable position of an infant who cannot return to the mother's womb, but neither can he run around and act. All an infant can do is witness and listen to the stupendous tales of action being told to him. You are at that precise point now. You cannot go back to the womb of your old world, but you cannot act with power either. For you there is only witnessing acts of power and listening to tales of power.
mother dream morning
Lucy said, 'We're so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often.' 'No fear of that,' said Aslan. 'Have you not guessed?' Their hearts leapt, and a wild hope rose within them. 'There was a real railway accident,' said Aslan softly. 'Your father and mother and all of you are- as you used to call it in the Shadowlands- dead. The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning. C. S. Lewis
wonder silver chairs
You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. - The Silver Chair
wonder-woman wonder
We all have a Wonder Woman inside us. Diane von Furstenberg
wonder-love two people
Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people. Bryce Courtenay
wonderful
It's one thing to be talented, but the other thing is connections - with agents, with people; that's what makes a difference, and from the beginning, I've had wonderful representation. Elizabeth Wilson
wonderful hypothetical
Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical. Alan Moore
wonderful scientist interest
I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating. Alan Alda
wonderful
Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can. Cheryl Strayed
wonder grows willing
Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow. Barbara Kingsolver
wonder reason said
Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable. Brenda Ueland
daydreaming harm
They say there's no harm in daydreaming, but there is. Charlaine Harris
daydreaming very-good asks
I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers. Bruce Dickinson
daydreaming unlimited elevators
I certainly hear the Trombones Unlimited version of 'Daydream' in a lot of elevators. John Sebastian
daydreaming evasion
A daydream is an evasion. Thomas Merton