#ren

A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death! ↗

— Sonia Johnson

#death #friend #glad #going #i

Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely. ↗

— Tim Johnson

#cheaper #childcare #children #choose #entirely

Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin. ↗

— Tim Vine

#brother #chinese #colin #dad #either

And to be different is great. You don't want to be the same. ↗

— Kristen Johnston

#different #great #same #want #you

First of all, I am not an expert on matters on different economic systems, but in my normal social intercourse with my friends we discussed matters like that. ↗

— Julius Rosenberg

#different #discussed #economic #expert #first

But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#brutal #children #even #going #had

I know it sounds crazy, but I have had far more connection with my parents after their deaths. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#connection #crazy #deaths #far #had

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#different #different sense #fun #like #sense

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#bed #church #dad #go #kids

Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#baby #because #child #close #go