She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.
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JANE AUSTEN A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she... JANE AUSTEN She has been putting qualities into David, altering him, turning him forever on a lathe since the da... J.M. BARRIE After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called fem... GERMAINE GREER To help insure the children's safety, we need the parents to make sure that the child has all his or... BARBARA TYLER The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our paren... NANCY FRIDAY She was merely an actress who had been forced to perform her part on stage without fully knowing her... ERICA SEHYUN SONG The system has always worked out good in the past. Parents of the younger students appreciate the ca... LINDA ANDREASSI The whole issue is, she made the decision based knowing that I wasn't going to be there for the chil... MATT DUBAY A stem cell trial like this without full review should just never, ever happen. The University of Pi... GLENN MCGEE You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she... JOHN RUSKIN A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivere... BIBLE Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name. A.A. (ALAN ALEXANDRA) MILNE If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name. If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name. A. A. MILNE Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schoo... 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BEN MOODY Her album is very much what she wanted to say, and it's funny going through the process with her and... BEN MOODY If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a comf... C.S. LEWIS Parents should not assume the role of a short-order cook, ... That is, if a child chooses not to eat... WILLIAM DIETZ She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of... MICHAEL ONDAATJE Moments before sleep are when she feels most alive, leaping across fragments of the day, bringing ea... MICHAEL ONDAATJE She was very informative. She never got out of the small town, really, (but) you would think by talk... DANA WILLIAMS You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER But if a person hasn't ever experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate wh... 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