Stephanie Coontz Quotes

Parents who obsess about every detail of child-rearing and orchestrate their children's 'resumes' may run themselves ragged while their own personal identities and adult relationships wither for lack of care.

Stephanie Coontz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 31, 1944

Topics

ChildrenParentsDetailCareRun

I do mourn my characters. I wrote an essay once where I was sure that far back in a marsh there was a hummock - a little hill of hardwoods - and an old farm house, where all the heroines in my novels lived together with all my beloved dead dogs. I've discussed this with my therapist, naturally. He says it's okay in fair amounts.

Jim Harrison

TogetherFarmBackHouseHillOkay

I would want everyone to love someone in the purest sense of the word - an unconditional love in which you don't expect anything in return.

Michael Arden

LoveSomeoneYouWantAnything

For my senior prom, my father finally said I could go - as long as I was home by 9 P.M.! That was around the time that most people were heading out. When I was little I was so mad at them all the time. 'Why can't I do this?' 'Why are there so many rules?' But looking back now, my parents gave me the foundation to have so many choices in life.

Amy Chua

LifeFatherHomeTimeParentsMe

Music is the only place that I can have no taboos. In real life I have a lot of taboos, and I can't talk about everything easily.

Stromae

LifeMusicI CanPlaceTalkReal

I have a lot of great memories, but I can't imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.

Rob Lowe

LifeMemoriesGreatNowMoreThan

Mubarak was adept, as were many other U.S.-backed dictators, at playing the sane middle to the 'lunatics with beards' he so often used as bogeymen to guarantee the support of foreign allies.

Mona Eltahawy

SupportPlayingUsedAlliesMiddle

My first children's book, 'Tickle Monster,' was inspired by tickling my son one evening.

Josie Bissett

SonChildrenBookEveningFirst

Somebody's upset with every movie.

DMX

UpsetSomebodyMovieEvery

In this age when people expect to get their music for free, we have to work out how we can protect the rights of creative artists so they are compensated fairly and that the record business itself remains sound and healthy.

Clive Davis

WorkBusinessMusicAgeCreative

Please call your second witness, and then call your mother, she worries.

Colin Mochrie

MotherSheCallYourSecondPlease

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

Rem Koolhaas

ArchitectureImportantMoreThan

The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.

Rian Johnson

PeopleBrickBloomReactionBeen

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