Relationships and Family

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

Someone once asked me whether I thought women artists should have children, and, since we were beyond discussing why this question is never asked of artists who are men, I gave my answer promptly. “Yes,” I said, somewhat to my surprise. And, as if to amend my rashness, I added: “They should have children— assuming this is of interest to them —but only one.” “Why only one?” this Someone wanted to know. “Because with one you can move,” I said. “With more than one you’re a sitting duck.”

Study yr keeds. Kids. There are a lot of poems there. But don’t write about yr kids. Write about the human, what’s left of him, where he’s going, what he dropped on the floor .

Very much of a novelist’s work must appertain to the intercourse between young men and young women.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

You must write for children in the same way you do for adults, only better.

As soon Seek roses in December—ice in June; Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; Believe a woman or an epitaph, Or any other thing that’s false, before You trust in critics.

It is a psychological trait in human nature that interest is established in the persons whom the playwright introduces at the beginning of his play so firmly that if the interest is then switched off to other persons who enter upon the scene later, a sense of disappointment ensues.

Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.