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“The deeper purpose of a more positive attitude toward men is a better life for the children who are parented by the men who are their dads and stepdads; less shame for our sons who will become men; and, for our daughters, a deeper understanding of men's desire to please that leaves them feeling their willingness to please is not unrequited but returned - allowing our daughters to feel less lonely and more loved. If we earn more and love less, we pay for a home in which we do not live.”

“I am a woman and a woman of Africa. I am a daughter of Nigeria and if she is in shame, I shall stayand mourn with her in shame.”

Ifs Daughter Shame Mourn Nigeria

Author:Buchi Emecheta

“Are we bereft of citizenship because we are mothers, wives and daughters of a mighty people? Have women no country--no interests staked in public weal--no liabilities in common peril--no partnership in a nation's guilt and shame?”

People Country Mother Nations Interest Common Wife Daughter Shame Guilt Partnership Citizenship Peril Liability Bereft Wife And Daughter

Book:On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters

Source: On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters

“Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.”

Mother Sin Daughter Shame Sensuality

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“Do I have YOUR permission to be a Supernatural God? If I want to open heaven, and in a moment in time, touch the heart of a daughter and supernaturally break all the darkness, shame, and torment in her life, MAY I DO THAT?”

Ifs Want Heart May Moments Heaven Break Darkness Daughter Shame Permission Torment Moments In Time

Author:Jim Anderson

“Did you love Melanie?" asked Adam unexpectedly. There was no pause before I shook my head. "That's a shame," said Adam. "Why?" "Well, someone as special as your daughter should've been... made with love.”

Should Wells Made Said Special Daughter Shame Adam Pauses Your Daughter Made With Love

Author:Malorie Blackman

“Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.”

Feels Science Mother Time Truth Is Daughter Shame Midwife

Author:Johannes Kepler

“Christian mothers, if only you knew the future of distress and peril, of shame ill-restrained, that you prepare for your sons and daughters in imprudently accustoming them to live hardly clothed and in making them lose the sense of modesty, you should be ashamed of yourselves and of the harm done the little ones whom heaven entrusted to your care, to be reared in Christian dignity and culture.”

Ifs Should Littles Done Care Christian Mother Culture Heaven Loses Son Daughter Dignity Shame Ill Harm Ashamed Modesty Distress Peril Your Son Son And Daughter If Only You Knew

Author:Pope Pius XII