#he

It is time for us to focus on the issues that bring us together as a nation. Supporting parents' capacity to raise their children with the love and resources they need is simply the right thing to do. ↗

— Joan Blades

#capacity #children #focus #issues #love

Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the flexibility in their jobs to also be primary caretakers. ↗

— Joan Blades

#also #both #caretakers #earn #fair

People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet. But most of the time people already have pretty well established opinions. ↗

— Joan Blades

#because #distributor #established #how #information

People see me on TV two and three times a day, and see me cooking all these wonderfully Southern, fattening dishes. That's only 30 days out of 365. And it's for entertainment. ↗

— Paula Deen

#day #days #dishes #entertainment #fattening

The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years. ↗

— Paula Deen

#bed #calculate #calories #consuming #did

We have made a commitment to feed 20-million people over the next two years. We are somewhere around 10 million. But I can promise you that we are not going to stop at 20 million. Because hunger, there is almost no cure for it. You can take care of the problem today, but it is a recurring problem. ↗

— Paula Deen

#around #because #care #commitment #cure

When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people. ↗

— Paula Deen

#destroy #done #earth #feeling #felt

Our supporters can send the message that it's wrong for politically connected corporations to make millions while people doing an honest day's work are being cheated out of an honest day's pay. ↗

— Morris Dees

#cheated #connected #corporations #day #doing

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent. ↗

— Joan Blades

#given #manifesto #motherhood #mothers #need

We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition. ↗

— Joan Blades

#censure #clinton #congress #family #friends