Motherhood may be a 'killer' when it comes to becoming a Master of the Universe, but among middle-class mothers, even after that touch of baby's lips to bosom, a big and growing number find themselves able - and often required - to bring home the family bacon.
Chrystia Freeland
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information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a l... EVAN DAUGHERTY At the end of the film Val suggests there may be a way to rejoin the living, when he says, 'Let&... DWIGHT YOAKAM Becoming a mother has been the best thing ever for me. It's become my life's work. Not just ... ANNA GETTY Rather than showing themselves to be an ally to the middle class by ending the AMT or repealing it f... ELLEN TAUSCHER The Mormons' passage from bugbears of the Republican Party to its stalwarts may be analogized to... NOAH FELDMAN We need a straitjacket around Congress when it comes to spending so that they are forced to do what ... JOHN CORNYN The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. 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STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY The number of queries in a large dataset is exponential, and it's growing exponentially. No matt... GURJEET SINGH Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... 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Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu... C. JOYBELL C. The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class... SLOAN WILSON I've realized as well after five years of being on the road that if I'm going to four or fiv... COLIN FARRELL I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a tradin... DAMIAN LEWIS There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single ha... DAVID NICHOLLS How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL When you come from a big family, you see that, growing up, you're learning how to share. Your si... GISELE BUNDCHEN Filmmaking is hard. I mean, it's not that hard, but it is hard to find your way through a system... DAVID MACKENZIE I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except ... ANNE FRANK How to be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. <... WENDELL BERRY if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI
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