“The idea of Cable as a man out to protect his daughter by any means necessary gives the character an emotional heft and underlines everything he does. It's richly fulfilling.” MenGivingMeanDoeIdeasCharacterEmotionalProtectDaughterFulfillingCables Author:Tom Brevoort
“I suppose all moms have an idea who they hope their daughters will be. Like a connect-the-dots picture where you think you know what shape it will become. But then it's the daughter who draws the lines, and she might connect the dots you didn't intend, making a whole different picture. So I've gotta trust the dots she's given me, and she's gotta trust me to draw the picture myself.” ThinkingKnowsIdeasDifferentWholeMightGivenLinesMomShapesDrawsDaughterTrust MeDotsYou Think You Know Author:Laura Lee
“Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy to finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one area where I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter, and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” StillsIdeasBigsMightFoundEnergyAliveRocksSucceedDaughterAreasDeterminationDirectFoundationBottomPretendingFinishingTypewritersGreatest FearBig IdeasStrippingSolid FoundationDetermination To SucceedStripping Away Author:J. K. Rowling
“Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.” IdeasEarthHeavenSonDaughter Author:Samuel Johnson
“Obviously [my daughters] - and Michelle - have made a lot of sacrifices on behalf of my cockamamie ideas, the running for office and things.” MadeIdeasRealityRunningPoliticsCommunityFamilyComedyGenerationsSacrificeHuman NatureOfficeDaughterUnityIdeologyMy DaughterBehalfRunning For Office Author:Barack Obama
“The idea of being given things that you don't necessarily deserve was always a difficult one for me to negotiate, and so I really always felt that I had to prove myself. Being the daughter of a famous man I guess is more easy than being the daughter of a famous woman, but at the same time there was a sense of really, with me, of wanting to earn my own way.” MenWayIdeasGivenFeltEasyDifficultMy OwnProveDaughterDeserveFamous WomenProve MyselfOne For Me Author:Anjelica Huston
“I was surprised by my daughter's generation and how they were rebelling against the '70s idea that sex was perfect and it should be sought.” ShouldIdeasSexPerfectGenerationsDaughterMy Daughter Author:Erica Jong
“When Marvel put together Ultimate Spider-Man and someone came up with the idea of having Principal Coulson, they said, "Do you want to do the voice?" I thought, "I have to do the voice!" Because I have a daughter and we watch some cartoons, I couldn't bear the idea of tuning in and hearing somebody else's voice.” MenWantSaidIdeasTogetherVoiceWatchesBearsDaughterUltimateHearingPrincipalThey SaidCartoonSpidersTuningSpider Man Author:Clark Gregg
“When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.” WritingIdeasCoursesReadingBornSleepNovelBabyDaughterMagazinesMy DaughterPregnantEarnestMosesBasketsWere Pregnant Author:Kate Beckinsale
“We need to raise our sons more like our daughters. We need to relieve them of this burden of the idea that to be masculine they have to be superior, which is what they get addicted to, and why both racism and sexism are crimes that I call superiority crimes.” NeedsIdeasCrimeSonRacismDaughterRaisesBurdenSuperiorsSexismSuperiorityMasculineOur Daughter Author:Gloria Steinem
“By the time I was seventeen, I was on my way to Hollywood and didn't look back. My family is supportive now, but like any adult guardian of a seventeen-year-old daughter, they were not thrilled with my plan to run off to the LA to make it as an actress. Even a somewhat functioning parent would think that was a bad, bad idea. Lucky for me, I didn't listen to them.” ThinkingWayYearsLooksIdeasRunningParentPlansLuckyDaughterAdultsMy FamilyHollywoodActressesMy WaySupportiveGuardianBad IdeasSeventeenSeventeen Years Old Author:Amber Heard
“If I'm creating a new superhero, it shouldn't be any different from other superheroes in terms of the qualities. Obviously the personality can be different. I think traditionally in comics women have tended to be a girlfriend or the daughter of whoever, whether it's even Batgirl as Gordon's daughter, or whatever. There is that relation of the hero, you know, like Superman's cousin, Supergirl. And that's great. It's fantastic to have a link to these amazing characters, but I kind of like the idea of things being something in their own right, which is why I've always loved Wonder Woman.” IfsThinkingKnowsKindIdeasDifferentCharacterTermQualityWonderPersonalityHeroCreatingDaughterRelationFantasticGirlfriendLinksSuperheroCousinWonder WomanSupergirl Author:Mark Millar
“America has never had a very wide vocabulary for miscegenation. We say we like diversity, but we don't like the idea that our Hispanic neighbor is going to marry our daughter. America has nothing like the Spanish vocabulary for miscegenation. Mulatto, mestizo, Creole - these Spanish and French terms suggest, by their use, that miscegenation is a fact of life. America has only black and white. In eighteenth-century America, if you had any drop of African blood in you, you were black.” IfsIdeasFactsUseAmericaBlackTermWhiteBloodCenturyDiversityDaughterWideNeighborBlack And WhiteVocabularyFacts Of LifeHispanicOur DaughterCreoleMiscegenationMulattoes Author:Richard Rodriguez
“It's particularly important as parents in our conversations with our daughters and our sons to consider ideas intimate justice when we talk about and set them going on their early formative experience.” ImportantIdeasParentJusticeSonConversationDaughterIntimateOur Daughter Author:Peggy Orenstein
“If I say to my daughter, "Go say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I think the idea that she'll say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude only if she wants to is the biggest crock of silliness I've ever heard. Yet I meet people everyday who were clearly brought up to think that if they didn't want to say "hi" to Aunt Gertrude, that was fine.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantIdeasReasonHeardTeachingFineDaughterEverydayMannersMy DaughterAuntSillinessGertrude Author:Marianne Williamson
“The thing I've been talking about with daughter is the idea of - and I'm talking about essentially in America - the possibility of, a lost generation. I've been listening to a lot of music - as a fan, as a critic, as somebody who likes to dance - but I hear, you know, within these songs and half the people I hear, these philosophies encoded and embedded in these songs.” PeopleKnowsIdeasPhilosophyAmericaSongLostHalfTalkingGenerationsFansPossibilityListeningDaughterCriticsLikesEmbeddedLost Generation Author:Saul Williams
“My daughter was a toddler. I had no idea there was anything wrong with kids' media.I started watching little preschool shows with her or G-rated videos or whatever; I couldn't believe what I was seeing, that there seemed to be far more male characters than female characters in what we make for little kids. It was just a shock.” BelieveLittlesIdeasCharacterShowsKidsSeeingMediaDaughterFemaleMalesVideoNo IdeaShockMy DaughterLittle KidFemale CharactersToddlerPreschool Author:Geena Davis
“We put in all the great ideas that can be brought into the film [Doctor Strange] in the service of introducing the world to an audience who's never heard of it and doesn't know it from a hole in the wall. And we thought that an inter-dimensional girlfriend that's the daughter of an inter-dimensional demon-esque creature was a step too far in introducing this world.” KnowsWorldIdeasFilmStepsAudienceHeardThis WorldStrangeWallCreaturesDaughterDoctorsHolesGirlfriendDemonIntroducingGreat Idea Author:Kevin Feige
“I have a daughter who's four, who's dainty and princess-esque. I still get to dress her like my little accessory. I think I have one more year to do that, then she's going to get her own ideas - so I better move quickly!” ThinkingYearsLittlesStillsIdeasMovingFourDaughterDressesPrincessAccessoriesDainty Author:Erykah Badu
“People love the idea of a good girl gone bad, thinking that my parents were so strict and disowned me, but that actually wasn't the case. Even though they don't necessarily agree with some of the things I do, they love me as their daughter. That's always been their perspective.” PeopleThinkingIdeasMotherGirlParentCasesGonePerspectiveDaughterAgreeStrictGood Girl Author:Katy Perry
“I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” InspirationalStillsIdeasBigsMotivationalFearRocksDaughterFoundationSuicideBottomTypewritersSuicidal ThoughtsGreatest FearBig IdeasSolid FoundationDetermination To SucceedStripping Away Author:J. K. Rowling
“I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'” ThinkingIdeasChoicesDecisionWifeCitizensWasteDaughterRaisedNotionActressesGoatsMaking DecisionsGood CitizenJust Be HappyGood WifePreconceived NotionsPreconceived IdeasCobblers Author:Sandra Bullock
“If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.” IfsGivingWellsIdeasWould BeMotherCultureAsksFatherSonBrotherLoversDiversityDaughterSocial JusticeStrangerLiftsIf I CouldBrothers And SistersLiftingMother And FatherMother And DaughterFather And SonDaughter To Father Author:Maya Angelou
“He once thought it himself, that he might die with grief: for his wife, his daughters, his sisters, his father and master the cardinal. But pulse, obdurate, keeps its rhythm. You think you cannot keep breathing, but your ribcage has other ideas, rising and falling, emitting sighs. You must thrive in spite of yourself; and so that you may do it, God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.” ThinkingGivingHeartMayIdeasMightDiesFallFatherGriefWifeMastersDaughterStonesFleshRhythmBreathingRisingSpiteThriveSighPulseCardinalsHeart Of Stone Author:Hilary Mantel
“We are all the sons or daughters of immigrants - some more recent than others - but all dedicated to the triumph of an idea that serves as the touchstone of what it means to be an American. This America is the only America that we have hitherto known - if being conservative has anything to do with conserving the principles of our past, then no conservative has any business bashing legal immigration.” IfsMeanIdeasAmericaPastKnownPrinciplesSonDaughterConservativeImmigrationTriumphImmigrantsDedicatedOur PastTouchstonesConservingLegal ImmigrationWhat It Means To Be An American Author:Jack Kemp
“I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.” MadeI CanIdeasStoriesRememberRomanceMotherThreeMemoriesMy OwnGrowing UpGrowingSacrificeHonorElementsDaughterIdealsLoyaltyClassicSatisfyingFairnessThree Daughters Author:Francine Pascal
“I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.” IfsThinkingMindBookIdeasFeelingsMotherGenerationsGrewGrew UpDaughterMotherhoodKitchenMy Daughter Author:A. S. Byatt
“I knew I was going to love my daughter, but I had no idea how much I would love her.” IdeasMotherDaughterNo IdeaMy DaughterLove My Daughter Author:Jeremy Sisto
“It is true that the movie is perhaps my most politically-charged. The story is thrust into motion by the idea of what do you do when your 13 year old daughter comes home pregnant. And not only is she pregnant, but she wants to keep the baby.” WantYearsIdeasStoriesHomeMotherBabyDaughterComing HomePregnancyPregnantThrust Author:Todd Solondz