#par

I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#dignity #feet #great #ground #helps

I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works for pin money. Actually, most families where there are two parents depend on two incomes to get by. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#depend #families #get #i #incomes

The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#already #among #attack #britain #collectors

In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to the theater now I feel like a visitor. The cinema is really what I enjoy. I want to do more independent movies. ↗

— Brian Cox

#cinema #come #enjoy #feel #i

The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that. ↗

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#churches #emotional #government #intervene #kind

In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable. ↗

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#conceivable #controls #covert #impose #irresistible

I lived in L.A. for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it. ↗

— Catherine O'Hara

#did #few #had #i #like

Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me. ↗

— Maureen O'Hara

#asked #charles #contract #could #first

The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies. ↗

— Maureen O'Hara

#boost #career #comedies #family #gave

The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills. ↗

— Maureen O'Hara

#hayley #mills #parent #performances #remarkable