#rent

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#could #different #entirely #had #happened

I have a great husband, great parents and in-laws, and I have help with a nanny. It's not easy, but there are others who do it every day and don't have a high-profile job as I do. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#easy #every #every day #great #help

Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#apparent #benefit #does #entail #loss

Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple. ↗

— Daisy Berkowitz

#different #different angles #front #huge #simple

The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters. ↗

— Rachel Blanchard

#brothers #child #confusing #does #fork

I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried. ↗

— Ella R. Bloor

#awful #buried #children #colorado #day

I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#after #been #changes #court #did

I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American. ↗

— Ana Castillo

#american citizen #american citizens #citizen #citizens #i

I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good. ↗

— John McGahern

#changes #different #feel #good #grew

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#child #citizen #controlling #existence #government