If Mom is convinced that ballet lessons are a must, she should take them. Although it may look odd to see a thirty-year old woman hang- ing onto a bar and flinging a slightly plump leg in the air, the sight is not as pathetic as seeing her seven-year old daughter grimly going through such motions just to please her mother, when she would prefer to be at home designing new doll clothes. Although some parents are never quite ready to accept this fact, the child is not one of our possessions. We don’t own him; we never will. We gave birth to his body; he may share some of our physical characteristics; but he does not inherit our desires. He’s a different person, a separate entity, with his own likes and dislikes. It’s a grave mistake to try to override a child’s power of choice in what he wants to be and do. Some parents do this in an attempt to live their lives through the child.
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BABE RUTH Even though this pegs to 150 percent of market, the premiums are still lower or benefits more expans... RUTH CASE Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom. RUTH GORDON I was like the queen of the South. RUTH BROWN The side of his face had gone numb so he went to a dentist, but was told he should see a doctor as w... RUTH LIGGETT I don't think the Barbara Vines are mysteries in any sense. The Barbara Vine is much more slowly... RUTH RENDELL If people want to invade your privacy, they want to invade your privacy. I find it chilling, and I f... RUTH NEGGA When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot o... RUTH OZEKI For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his core... RUTH GLICK I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humili... RUTH RENDELL But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now. RUTH BROWN My mother really would make these dreadful concoctions. She really prided herself on something calle... RUTH REICHL Anyone who has ever been an ugly adolescent - and we are legion - knows that the feeling of being un... RUTH REICHL We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues. RUTH BROWN There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through. RUTH BROWN There were times that Harvey (Fuqua), myself, B.B King, we almost had to go to jail to sing this stu... RUTH BROWN All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as ... RUTH BROWN I traveled all through the deep South, but I was not getting on the big TV shows. RUTH BROWN We get more complaints now because of the cost. Insurance companies are looking at limiting benefits... RUTH CASE The American dream is to have your own home and to have some sort of security with health insurance.... RUTH CASE Phoebe English Tyler Wallingford Matthews Wallingford RUTH WARRICK Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the intern... RUTH ASAWA Anthony is the anti-aesthete, RUTH REICHL We applaud the FDA for defining what whole grain is. Unfortunately, the FDA has not defined any clai... RUTH LITCHFIELD I'm a very rigorous person. I like to take exercise. People get mired in old age, they get bent ... RUTH RENDELL I have seen too many people in my career think that there is some natural progression to life, with ... RUTH PORAT Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on ... RUTH FIRST Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I ... RUTH RENDELL Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth RUTH MCKENNEY I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night. RUTH RENDELL After my husband spell-checks one of my manuscripts, my editor says, 'It's been Normanized.&... RUTH GLICK I was a married woman and I had a baby. I would have adored it, but I just couldn't do it becaus... RUTH WARRICK 'Comfort Me with Apples' is a love story, or better, two love stories. And since it deals wi... RUTH REICHL I'm convinced that the main reason we've become so obsessed with restaurants is due to our b... RUTH REICHL I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation. RUTH BENEDICT