Instead of thinking about the sex, I'd always think about the clap and the crabs those people have.
My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.
I can't wish I weren't something that I am.
I don't have any children. I just have a cat, to my parents' dismay.
I hope that I serve by being a teacher.
I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.
We [work] really hard to make sure we accomplish everything we want in life, but we don't think about being the president's daughter; we don't think about that, really.
I'm a designer of more than clothes. I am a designer of a very creative concept.
There's a small movement of teacher-led schools across the country. These are schools that don't have a traditional principal, teachers come together and actually run the school themselves. That's kind of the most radical way, but I think something that's more doable across the board is just creating career ladders for teachers that allow certain teachers after a certain number of years to inhabit new roles. Roles mentoring their peers, helping train novice teachers to be better at their jobs, roles writing the curriculum, leading on lesson planning.
If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.
The form is always integral to the expression of the theme or to the sheer telling of the story, and sometimes the right form is apparent to me from the outset and sometimes it isn't.