Donna Ball quotes

“Motherhood is a choice you make every day, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.”
-- Donna Ball

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“You're not born with a walk like that. You have to earn it.”
-- Donna Ball

Source : Donna Ball (2009). “A Year on Ladybug Farm”, p.5, Penguin

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“Half the time your kids end up hating you for at least 5 of their teenage years[.] And don't ever expect anything so mundane as a thank you”
-- Donna Ball

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“The rules of marriage were simple and easy to follow: faithfulness, patience, compromise. But there were no rules to divorce, or if there were, he had not yet discovered them.”
-- Donna Ball

Source : Donna Ball (1997). “Just Before Dawn”, Signet

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“My wife once said that if men had to worry about who was going to clean up the mess, there'd be a lot less violence in the world.”
-- Donna Ball

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“We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.”

“The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'”

“Sleep is out... tired is the new black.”

“Our choices determine our destiny”

Source : A. R. Bernard (2016). “Four Things Women Want from a Man”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

“The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.”

Source : "The Meaning of Life and Other Essays" by A.J. Ayer, ("The Concept of Freedom"), 1990.

“She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.”

“Making a movie is, for me, like painting. I just enjoy the care that goes into every brushstroke and the choice of every color. I enjoy the intensity of it.”

“Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire.”

“We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.”

“Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.”