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“Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.”

Children Mother Wise Offers Accepted Fortunate Shocking Flirting Maidens Papa

Book:The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)

“What has God given you? Moses had a stick, David had a slingshot, and Paul had a pen. Mother Teresa possessed a love for the poor; Billy Graham, a gift for preaching; and Joni Eareckson Tada, a disability. What did they have in common? A willingness to let God use whatever they had, even when it didn't seem very useful. If you will assess what you have to offer in terms of your time, your treasure, and your talents, you will have a better understanding of how you might uniquely serve.”

Source: The Hole in Our Gospel: What does God expect of Us? The Answer that Changed my Life and Might Just Change the World

“Each person is entitled to some version of God that seems real, yet many versions contradict one another. The God of any religion is only a fragment of God. This has to be true, because a being who is unbounded has no image, no role to play, no location either inside or outside the cosmos, whereas religions offer many images--father, mother, lawgiver, judge, ruler of the universe.”

Persons Real Play Seems Mother Universe Father Roles Judging Offers Versions Being True Cosmos Rulers Entitled Location Fragments Father Mother

Author:Deepak Chopra

“In brief, when a man fails as a wallet, we put him in prison; when a woman fails as a mother, we offer her social services. We're taking a criminal approach to men, a social services approach to women.”

Men Mother Social Failing Offers Approach Prison Criminals Wallets Social Service

Author:Warren Farrell

“I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.”

Way States Facts Mother Sides United United States Circumstances Offers Chiefs African American Indian Native Grandfather Native American Indian Chief

Book:I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“O what is it about having one's own Babe upon one's Hip that makes a Woman wish to go home to her Mother? A Desire to say: 'Look, the Circle is compleat'? A Desire to say: 'Look, I have cross'd the Divide and now am more like you'? A Desire to say: 'Look, this Babe I offer you is my most precious Gift'?”

Looks Home Mother Desire Wish Like You Offers Crosses Circles Hips Divides Babe Precious Gifts

Author:Erica Jong

“I have heard from my father and mother all the answers that faith in God could offer to those who doubt and search for the truth. In our home and in many other homes the eternal questions were more actual than the latest news in the Yiddish newspaper. In spite of all the disenchantments and all my skepticism I believe that the nations can learn much from those Jews, their way of thinking, their way of bringing up children, their finding happiness where others see nothing but misery and humiliation.”

Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer

“[The Republicans] offer . . . a detailed agenda for national renewal. . . . [On] reducing illegitimacy . . . the state will use . . . funds for programs to reduce out-of-wedlock pregnancies, to promote adoption, to establish and operate children's group homes, to establish and operate residential group homes for unwed mothers, or for any purpose the state deems appropriate. None of the taxpayer funds may be used for abortion services or abortion counseling.”

May Children States Use Home Used Mother Purpose Groups Republican Offers Program Abortion Appropriate Agendas Fund Pregnancy Adoption Renewal Taxpayers Reducing Counseling Wedlock

Author:Newt Gingrich

“The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.”

Kind Different Earth Mother Offers Different Kinds Solace

Author:Natasha Trethewey

“Parents offer an open womb. More than anyone else in your life, mothers, and sometimes fathers, can kiss it, and make it well whentheir grown children need to regress and repair. More than anyone else in your life, mothers, and sometimes fathers, can catch you when you start to fall. When you are in disgrace, defeat, and despair, home may be the safest place to hide.”

Needs Wells May Children Sometimes Home Mother Fall Father Parent Offers Kissing Despair Defeat Womb Disgrace Grown Children

Author:Frank Pittman

“[My mother told me:] "You must decide whether you want to get married someday, or have a career."... I set my sights on the career. I thought, what does any man really have to offer me?”

Men Want Doe Mother Careers Offers Married Sight Someday

Author:Annie Elizabeth Delany