child quote 1

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

- Bishop Desmond Tutu

child quote...

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

- Phyllis Diller

child quote

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

life quote 2

Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.

- Judy Collins

life quote 1

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.

- Tom Head

life

Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after -- lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.

- Louise Erdrich

women's wisdom 6

"it is sad to grow old but nice to ripen" brigitte bardot

women's wisdom 5

"you can buy cookies,
but
you can't buy love"

raquel welch

women's wisdom 4

"you don't know a
woman until
you've had a letter
from her"

ada leverson

women's wisdom 3

"it's the good girls
who keep diaries;
the bad girls
never have time"

tallulah bankhead

women's wisdom 2

" the trouble with
being in the rat race
is that
even if you win,
you're still
a rat"

lily tomlin

women's wisdom 1

" the thing women have
got to learn
is that nobody
gives you power.
you just take it"

roseanne barr

women's wisdom

" i always thought
that if i were
popular i must be
doing something
wrong"

suzanne vega

women's wisdom

" whatever women do
they must do twice as well as men
to be thought half as good.

Luckily this is not difficult"

charlotte whitton