quotes about Childcare

“Thunderstick?... You actually said, 'Thunderstick?'... That, my friend is a Winchester 30.06.”

“It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore; all of a sudden it wants to do.”

“Am I a fool to hope for kindness/support from someone u have given nothing but that to?”

“You should find him because he loves you.”

“The biggest thing I don’t like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?”

“I’ve never seen anyone rehabilitated by punishment.”

“[On suicide:] It's the only cause of death that can be used as a noun to describe the dead person. If you die of cancer you are not called 'a cancer.' If someone else shoots you, you are not referred to as 'a murder.' But if you shoot yourself, you are labeled as a suicide. Your death becomes your definition.”

Source : Joan Wickersham (2009). “The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order”, p.204, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“To shut the door at the end of the workday, which does not spill over into evening. To throw away books after reading them so theydon't have to be dusted. To go through boxes on New Year's Eve and throw out half of what is inside. Sometimes for extravagance to pick a bunch of flowers for the one table. Other women besides me must have this daydream about a carefree life.”

“Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.”

“Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my wings and fly.”