#hips

My mothering needed a tad more Mother Theresa and a lot less Lizzy Borden. ↗

— Irene Tomkinson

#patience #relationships #family

Pa never told stories like Grandpa. Or treated the barn like family. Eli knew how Grandpa’s own pa had built the barn by hand, hauling bluestone for the foundation behind a stubborn ox with horns as wide as a tractor. How the smell of the plank walls was like family and how you never washed your chore coat so the animals would smell that you were family, too. ↗

— Sandra Neil Wallace

#author-sandra-neil-wallace #belonging #family #little-joe #nature

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#i #i am #life #like #lot

I'm making a movie about relationships, and I'm surrounded by guys scared of talking to girls. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#guys #i #making #movie #relationships

It's so hard to have relationships when there is so much scrutiny. ↗

— Rosanna Arquette

#much #relationships #scrutiny

I don't know why I always end up talking about my relationships. I try not to. ↗

— David Arquette

#always #end #i #i always #know

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#friends #friendships #his #less #like

I am sorry for him; I couldn't be angry with him if I tried. Who suffers by his ill whims? Himself always. Here he takes it into his head to dislike us, and he won't come and dine with us. What's the consequence? He don't lose much of a dinner." "Indeed, I think he loses a very good dinner," interrupted Scrooge's niece. Everybody else said the same, and they must be allowed to have been competent judges, because they had just had dinner; and, with the dessert upon the table, were clustered round the fire, by lamp-light. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#relationships #family

That so many thousands of children around the world are available for adoption is a sign of our impoverished humanity. That so many persons around the world open their hearts and homes each year to embrace a few of these children is a lasting testimony to humanity's enduring nobility. ↗

— Deborah A. Beasley

#deborah-beasley #family-relationships #foster-care #parenting #psycology

Judging Natalie as my mother had judged me was, I felt like telling her son, just my ass-backward way of showing love. I'd spent my life trying to translate that language, and now I realized I had come to speak it fluently. When was it that you realized the thread woven through your DNA carried the relationship deformities of your blood relatives as much as it did their diabetes and bone density? ↗

— Alice Sebold

#relationships #relatives #family