#me

She has very strong ideas about family - ideas that probably sound kind of sexist to you. She believes all dhampirs should train and put in time as guardians, but that the women should eventually return home to raise their children together. But not the men? No, he said wryly. She thinks men still need to stay out there and kill Strigoi. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#raise-children #sexist #women #family

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#assumed #because #black #children #feminist

Take a photograph, It'll be the last. Not a dollar or a crowd could ever keep me here. I don't have a past, I just have a chance. Not a family or lonely plea remains to say. (chorus) Rain rain go away, Come again another day. All the world is waiting for the sun. Is it you I want, Or just the notion of your heart to wrap around So I can find my way around. Safe to say from here, You're getting closer now. We are never sad 'cause we are not allowed to be. (chorus) x2 (x2) To lie here under you, Is all I could ever do. To lie here under you... Rain rain go away, Come again another day. All the world is waiting for the sun. Rain rain go away, Come again another day, All the world is waiting for the sun. All the world is wairing for the sun. All the world is waiting for the sun. ↗

— Rain- Breaking Benjamin

#family

I'm sorry." "Be sorry you lied," he said, pressing a kiss to my forehead. "Don't be sorry you loved him. That's part of you, part you have to let go, yeah, but still something that's made you who you are. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#richelle-mead #rose #spirit-bound #love

Well, anything can happen and it happened to me. I learned everybody has a story. ↗

— Kevin Sorbo

#everybody #happen #happened #i #learned

Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can't resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to it. ↗

— Richard Eyre

#conflict #entitlement #kids #ownership #parenting

Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society, the way that a child catches the measles. But people with understanding realize that their presuppositions should be *chosen* after a careful consideration of which worldview is true. ↗

— Francis A. Schaeffer

#catch #francis-schaeffer #measels #presuppositions #schaeffer

At forty-three, I bought my first house. I’d wanted one like crazy. A house meant family, a happy childhood for my litttle girl and for the little girl self inside me. . . . I was soon overwhelmed by the upkeep and overcome by the yardwork. . . . In the bright light of closing, it was obvious: it was never a house I wanted; it was what a house symbolized to me. (254) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#house #need #want #family

The key is to understand that our children don't belong to us—they belong to God. Our goal as parents must not be limited by our own vision. I am a finite, sinful, selfish man. Why would I want to plan out my children's future when I can entrust them to the infinite, omnipotent, immutable, sovereign Lord of the universe? I don't want to tell God what to do with my children—I want Him to tell me! ↗

— Voddie T. Baucham Jr.

#christianity #homeschooling #parenting #faith

Guilt is a feeble emotion. It surrenders too easily ↗

— Deborah McKinlay

#relationships #women-s-literary #family