#hers

The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#atmosphere #competing #competitive #day #each

I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States. ↗

— Dana Rohrabacher

#constitution #criminal #deal #delegates #established

It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years. ↗

— Meg Tilly

#book #children #daughter #fathers #four

The first half of life is spent mainly in finding out who we are through seeing ourselves in our interaction with others. ↗

— June Singer

#first #half #interaction #life #mainly

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers. ↗

— Tom Chapin

#guitar #i #playing #started

One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands - a kind of mad courage. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#courage

Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes others more attracted to them. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#carrying #confident #makes #more #others

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority. ↗

— Barber Conable

#democracy #fathers #founding #founding fathers #functioning

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;! ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#ataraxy #coming-of-age #fathers-and-sons #philosophical #age

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi) ↗

— Eve Ensler

#being-alive #being-different #difference #intensity #love