Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs.


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The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the ...
LYDIA M. CHILD
Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angel...
LYDIA M. CHILD
It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
LYDIA MARIA FRANCIS CHILD
Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way ...
MRS. LYDIA MARIA CHILD
England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, ...
MRS. LYDIA MARIA CHILD
Sometimes you got to lose to win. Never give up. Never give in.
EMMANUEL JAL (WAR CHILD)
Do not make children cross-eyed, by having hair hang about their foreheads, where they see it contin...
LYDIA MARIA FRANCIS CHILD
Depend on no one else to give you what you want
DESTINY'S CHILD
We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because t...
LYDIA MARIA FRANCIS CHILD
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
LYDIA MARIA FRANCIS CHILD
I can't help the look of accusation in your eyes
LULLABY TO AN ANXIOUS CHILD
In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my ch...
JENNIFER LEE
Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgi...
SANDRA LEE
What is social proof? Put simply, it's the positive influence created when someone finds out tha...
AILEEN LEE
There's a McDonald's in the Louvre.
LEE RADZIWILL
I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was d...
AMY LEE
Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our chil...
LEE HANEY
I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.
AMY LEE
I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, wh...
TANITH LEE
I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.
TANITH LEE
I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don&#...
TANITH LEE
I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Ma...
TANITH LEE
At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone sa...
TANITH LEE
No one is ever ordinary.
TANITH LEE
I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most e...
TANITH LEE
I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
TANITH LEE
When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.
TANITH LEE
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to rev...
TANITH LEE
Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.
TANITH LEE
I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
TANITH LEE
I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as ...
TANITH LEE
If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say i...
TANITH LEE
The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
TANITH LEE
People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural b...
TANITH LEE