Diane Ackerman Quotes
Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.
Diane Ackerman
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Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.
Padgett Powell
After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
Manju Warrier
My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.
Nancy Pelosi
Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.
Gary Ackerman
There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming.
Beatrice Dalle
We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
Sam Brownback
I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
Nas
My parents always supported me and complimented me on other things, not just my looks. They told me I was capable, that I was smart, that I was creative.
Paloma Elsesser
We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
Yoko Ono
A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
Mallory Ortberg
People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
Jackson Browne
Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.
Patricia Richardson
