What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.


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ANN OAKLEY
Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
ANN OAKLEY
The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative so...
ANN OAKLEY
Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
ANN OAKLEY
Let us keep Christmas beautiful Without a thought of greed, That it might live forevermore To fill o...
ANN SCHULTZ
It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is tha...
ANN BEATTIE
When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the f...
ANN RADCLIFFE
When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.
ANN RADCLIFFE
It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
ANN RADCLIFFE
There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not e...
ANN RADCLIFFE
Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each o...
ANN RADCLIFFE
What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeab...
ANN RADCLIFFE
There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
ANN RADCLIFFE
What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the so...
ANN RADCLIFFE
Though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their p...
ANN RADCLIFFE
The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinemen...
ANN RADCLIFFE
Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.
ANN RADCLIFFE
I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the o...
ANN RADCLIFFE
Through the eight books in 'The Treasure Chest' series, readers will meet twins Maisie and F...
ANN HOOD
In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family...
ANN HOOD
Admittedly, no Republican can get elected statewide in California anymore, but nor can what we think...
ANN COULTER
I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the deci...
ANN RICHARDS
I'm accusing Republicans of thinking the Jews have so much power.
ANN COULTER
If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech cri...
ANN COULTER
We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She too...
ANN HOOD
The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become ...
ANN BRASHARES
I don't mind being a tourist at all, and a gawker. I just walk around.
ANN ROBINSON
There was a Japantown in San Francisco, but after the internment camps that locked up all the Japane...
ANN NOCENTI
If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altoge...
ANN COULTER
Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career...
ANN OAKLEY
Key to success for the education of young African girls is building a model that works with communit...
ANN COTTON
I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.
ANN HOOD
On the campaign, I've had the privilege of advocating for important issues that affect all women...
ANN CALLIS
Multiple Sclerosis is obviously close to my heart and I'm determined to make a difference in the...
ANN ROMNEY