“Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women, policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes. And the stereotypical view of people of a world divided between home and child caring women and men as breadwinners, men representing the family outside the home.” PeopleMenWorldChildrenEndsHomeGoalViewsDoorsLimitsMen And WomenCaringErasPlanesDividedRepresentingMiningClosed DoorsBreadwinnerFirefighting Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“Where I did feel a difference is learning to just work in a different way so that your resources are not completely depleted so that you don't have anything to give to your child when you go home, and fortunately I've been working long enough that I know how to make that shift so that I don't compromise my work or compromise my relationships; not compromising parenting is really the biggest difference.” KnowsWayGivingFeelsChildrenLongDifferentEnoughHomeDifferencesKnow HowResourcesOur ChildrenCompromiseYour ChildrenDifferent Ways Author:Laura Linney
“it is impossible for any mind of common honesty not to be revolted by the contradictions in their principles and practice. They inveigh against the governments of Europe, because, as they say, they favor the powerful and oppress the weak. ... [yet] you will see them with one hand hoisting the cap of liberty, and with the other flogging their slaves. You will see them one hour lecturing their mob on the indefeasible rights of man, and the next driving from their homes the children of the soil, whom they have bound themselves to protect by the most solemn treaties.” MenMindChildrenHomeHandsGovernmentNextHoursPowerfulCommonLibertyPrinciplesPracticeRightsImpossibleHonestyProtectEuropeWeakSlaveBoundsFavorsDrivingSoilHypocrisyContradictionSolemnCapsTreatiesOne HourLecturingFlogging Author:Frances Trollope
“The charity that begins at home cannot rest there but draws one inexorably over the threshold and off the porch and down the street and so out and out and out and out into the world which becomes the home wherein charity begins until it becomes possible, in theory at least, to love the whole of creation with the same patience, affection, and amusement one first practiced, in between the pouts and tantrums, with parents, siblings, spouse, and children.” WorldFirstsChildrenWholeHomeParentStreetsCreationTheoryDrawsCharityAffectionSpouseAmusementSiblingThresholdAnd OffPorchTantrums Author:Nancy Mairs
“Every child's birthright is a happy home.” ChildrenHomeBirthrightHappy Home Author:Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
“I never thought I'd have children; I never thought I'd be in love, I never thought I'd meet the right person. Having come from a broken home - you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don't look for them.” FeelsLooksKindChildrenPersonsHomeCertainAcceptingBrokenTalesFairyFairy TaleRight PersonBroken Homes Author:Angelina Jolie
“It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl' or the 'bad mother' or the 'good mother,' 'the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children' or 'the earth mother who was happy to be at home baking pies,' all of that stuff that we sort of knew was a lie.” ChildrenHomeEarthUsedLyingMotherGirlStuffHorribleUsed To BePieBakingGood GirlGood MotherBad GirlBad Mother Author:Annette Bening
“When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.” WorldTryingChildrenHomeCareTeachHonestyIntegrityRaisesTake CareMy ChildrenHonesty And Integrity Author:Kevin Bacon
“Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home.” ChildrenHomeParent Author:Aretha Franklin
“I would love to adopt a child from a Spanish speaking country, because I want to have Spanish in the home.” WantChildrenCountryHome Author:Valerie Cruz
“I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I was still living at home.” ChildrenStillsHomeFilmActorsPennsylvaniaChild ActorsIndie Films Author:Charlie McDermott
“I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.” ChildrenHomeLeftSupportHappenedAreasMy FamilyWoundedTornFifthFamily Support Author:Djimon Hounsou
“I was powerless over my childhood but the coping strategies that I developed, to survive, all of which were creative and brilliant and got me through, as an adult those became my defects of character. Those became my shortcomings, control and all that kind of stuff... and that's my responsibility. I was a blameless child in what happened in the home; I take responsibility for my behaviors as an adult.” KindChildrenCharacterHomeStuffResponsibilityCreativeHappenedChildhoodBehaviorAdultsStrategyBrilliantMy ChildrenDefectsPowerlessTaking ResponsibilityCopingShortcomingsBlamelessDefects Of Character Author:Ashley Judd
“I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.” FeelsChildrenHomeStageGrewComfortableGrew UpTeenager Author:Tammy Blanchard
“If there is education, there will be everything in life. Government can make roads, hospitals and also construct school buildings. But your homes can brighten up only if your children are educated. I am confident that if we focus on education, our society will certainly develop.” IfsChildrenHomeGovernmentSchoolEducationFocusBuildingIndiaOur ChildrenEducatedYour ChildrenOur SocietyHospitalsConstructsSchool Buildings Author:Narendra Modi
“I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible to the person who works at Dunkin Donuts or who drives a bus, someone who comes home with their feet hurting like my father, someone whos busy and has too many children, like my mother.” WritingChildrenPersonsHomeWantedMotherFatherVoiceHurtFeetUniqueBusyComing HomeBusDonutsDunkin Donuts Author:Sandra Cisneros