"Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family."

Family, Men, Women, Civilization

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"Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family."

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"Big Brother is watching you."

George Orwell, British Author

Family, Brother

"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Give, Up, Believe

"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Family, Children, Clothes

"Blessed is the womb that born you."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Blessed, Womb, Birth, Mother

"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."

Richelle Mead, American Author

Family, Partnership, Decision, Teamwork

"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Family, Ideal, Relationship, Life

"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Father, Speak, Hear, Trust

"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Family, Nostalgia, Memory, Comfort, Love

"Children are angels."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Children, Angels, Blessing, Divine

"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Family, Rules, Rebellion, Youth, Identity

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"I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me."

Enemy,

"Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset."

Nature,

"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount."

Courage,

"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there."

Home, Censorship, Charity, End

"A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes."

Eye, Eyes, Man, Old, Self

"They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men."

Men, Women, Congress, Talk

"But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?"

God,

"But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain."

God,

"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts."

Ego, Lying

"You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother."

Mother, Divorce, Sleep