“Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.” ― Ann Oakley “If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; […]
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Top 8 Ann Packer Quotes in 2020
“How much do we owe the people we love? Now I would add a follow-up question: How do we cope with the fact that we can’t necessarily give the people we love what they need?” ― Ann Packer “The hard thing for me is to say no to people.” ― Ann Packer “Some weeks there’s […]
Top 35 Ann Patchett Quotes in 2020
“I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It’s a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what […]
Top 10 Ann Powers Quotes in 2020
“Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It’s an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over beats, that’s proven far more versatile than its detractors thought it would.” ― Ann Powers “To some extent, the idea that rock ‘n roll used to have this sort of free antediluvian identity, […]
Top 35 Ann Richards Quotes in 2020
“Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent of their bone mass.” ― Ann Richards “I just feel like I’m a very lucky person to have a new life […]
Top 4 Ann Rinaldi Quotes in 2020
“Little things about the Pilgrims surprised me. For instance, the fact that the first duel in America was fought at Plymouth by two teenaged boys over a girl. The life the Pilgrims led in Holland before coming to America also surprised me.” ― Ann Rinaldi “As a child growing up in World War II, I […]