“My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California.” TryingHalfOur LivesWifeSpecialAdultsMy WifeCalifornia Author:Pete McCloskey
“I have a four-and-a-half-year-old and, when she was two and a half, she would make my wife and I do voices, like Woody and Jessie the Cowgirl, or Elmo, or Yogi Bear and Booboo. If we didn't do it, she would scream at us. So, my wife and I would have adult conversations as Yogi Bear and Booboo. It was just a nightmare year.” IfsYearsTwoVoiceHalfFourWifeBearsConversationAdultsMy WifeNightmareScreamWoodyYogiCowgirlsElmoYogi Bear Author:Judd Apatow
“When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen. Even if she had to rage across all China, a swordswoman got even with anybody who hurt her family. Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound.” IfsStoriesGirlHurtWifeFeetDangerousGrewGrew UpAdultsIndependenceSlaveBoundsChinaRageChineseHeroines Book:The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts Source: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts