"Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least."

Family, Identity, Understanding, Connection

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"Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least."

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"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

"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

"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

"We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Wrapped in a mother's love is the most beautiful and safest place on earth for a child."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Family, Mother, Love, Child, Safety

"Make your wife happier, children wiser, yourself kinder, and you will make your life better."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Family, Happiness, Kindness, Growth

Explore more quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

"Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up."

Work, Elections

"In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15)."

Joy, Healing, Life, Gratitude

"Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier."

Truth, Heart, Pain

"Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good."

Society, Poverty, Depression, Identity, Self-Worth

"It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer."

Courage, Writing, Art, Politics

"God doesn't need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves."

Morality, Faith, Justice, Life, Karma

"People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own."

Behavior, Sin, Curiosity, Judgment, Observation

"Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger?"

Behavior, Anger, Word, Hatred, Speech

"Eating is a genuine need, continuous from our first day to our last, amounting over time to our most significant statement of what we are made of and what we have chosen to make of our connection to home ground."

Life, Food, Connection, Earth

"Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning."

Inspirational, Hope, Renewal, Optimism, Motivational