“Watching my daughter sort of live in this world where a photograph is not something to keep a memory. It's something to just speak with. It's language.” WorldSpeakLanguageMemoriesThis WorldDaughterPhotographMy Daughter Author:Alec Soth
“I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.” LanguageDaughterTongueSufficientMy DaughterForeign LanguageIgnorance Is Bliss Author:John Milton
“[When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':] But remember, it took me almost thirty years to get him to call it manure.” YearsCareRememberLanguagePresidentConversationSpeechDaughterThirtyThirty YearsLawnsManureFertilizer Author:Bess Truman
“The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.” ArtSoulLanguageDaughterDepthMysteriousTemperImpressiveImitator Author:Carl Maria von Weber
“Obama also allowed Hillary supporters to insert an absurd statement into the platform suggesting that media sexism spurred her loss and that “demeaning portrayals of women ... dampen the dreams of our daughters.” ... It would have been better to put this language in the platform: “A woman who wildly mismanages and bankrupts a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar campaign operation, and then blames sexism in society, will dampen the dreams of our daughters.”” Has BeensDreamLanguageLossMediaDaughterBlameDollarsBillionsCampaignsStatementsAbsurdOperationsSexismQuartersPlatformsSupporterSuggestingOur DaughterInsertPortrayalDemeaning Author:Maureen Dowd
“I do have one regret though. I wish Kathy Acker was still alive. I wish I could go swim with her again. My literary indebtedness to her is enormous. She's a more important mother to me than anyone can possibly imagine. In language I became a daughter worth a crap because of her. In language I redefined daughter, woman, I became a writer. Dora is an homage of sorts.” StillsImportantMotherLanguageWishAliveImagineRegretDaughterEnormousSwimCrapHomageIndebtedness Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“In the English language, I can love my car, or my house, or my daughter, or traveling, but in Greek and how I grew up, love is described with different words.” I CanDifferentHouseLanguageLove IsCarGrewGrew UpDaughterGreekMy DaughterEnglish Language Author:Yanni
“I think that the language that we use is a ritual, that my [maternal] grandmother was called "Big Mama" is a ritual, that my daughter calls my father "Baba" and my mother "Mama" is a ritual. There are common African-American rituals that are a part of my experience. If I ever get married some day I would like to jump the broom.” ThinkingMotherFatherLanguageCommonMarriedDaughterGrandmotherMy DaughterRitual Author:Jamilah Lemieux
“Lately, I'm thinking a lot about, in parenting and in my writing, how to create a language about sexism in a way that is attractive and approachable to this age group. I can teach my daughter about not talking to strangers but I can't teach her about how to succeed in a sexist world or even how to exist as a body in a sexist world. I want to begin by asking girls what they want and why they want it? Interrogating that. If this is the sex life you want, what makes you think you want that? I imagine the only way to authentically get at sexuality is by asking those questions.” ThinkingWorldWritingAgeGirlLanguageTeachImagineSucceedDaughterStrangerSexualityAttractiveMy DaughterSexismMake You ThinkSexist Author:Jessica Valenti
“Here in Raine, I can walk with the sunlight on my face. I can speak to anyone who speaks to me. I can learn my daughter's language. I can be called the name I was given when I was born. Here I am no longer my own secret. Will you let me stay?” I CanFacesNamesSpeakLanguageGivenBornMy OwnWalksSecretDaughterLet MeMy DaughterSunlightHere I Am Author:Patricia A. McKillip
“It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.” FatherLanguageDaughterCodeManualsExchanging Author:Aimee Bender