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"They [media] don't care if they're hurting anybody's family or hurting their reputation. The most interesting thing about it is that it's people doing it to other people. It's somebody who has a sister or a brother or a daughter or a son or a family. They don't care."
"I have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country."
"I don't think fashion has to change every five minutes. I'd like these to be clothes you can wear for a long time - ten, 20 years; pass on to your daughter. Why buy vintage when you can open your own closet!"
"I'll say - I have four kids! I married a woman when I was 24 years old. She was 13 years my senior. She had been married twice before. I adopted them. I was 24 and had a 17-year-old son instantly, an 11-year-old daughter, a 5-year-old, and a child on the way. So I had to learn how to become a parent very quickly."
"Make sure your daughter's goal is her goal, not your goal."
"My daughter's mother and I are no longer dating, and the people I'm most likely to date are those around me, who are athletes."
"I was gone so much in my first marriage. I love the moments when I engage with my youngest daughter now. It's not my thing to sit on the ground and play tea party, but I'll do it because it's a moment that will stick with me forever."
"When I was 15, a cabdriver asked me if I was Paul McCartney's daughter."
"My mother had a fear of doctors - other than her daughter marrying one."
"I want my daughter to have the choice not just to succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments."
"Success for me is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she is cheered on and supported."
"I'm excited that more people, especially men, are understanding that equality is good for them. I don't want men to want equality for women because they're being nice to their colleagues and daughters. I want men to want it because it's better for their companies and their lives."
"Do you ever lose the ego?” Westford asks me. “Yeah.” When his daughter kisses me, my ego flies out the window."
"It has been hard, I know, my daughters, but one word alone wipes out all of the hardships: love."
"Fervor is a fire that makes things boil and grow hot, just as fire causes water to boil. It is, properly speaking, charity on fire, and that is what you should have because a Daughter without Charity is like a body without a soul."
"God...should never have been expelled from America's schools. As we struggle to teach our children...we dare not forget that our civilization was built by men and women who placed their faith in a loving God. If Congress can begin each day with a moment of prayer...so then can our sons and daughters."
"I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians."
"No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home."
"My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative."
"I wish my daughters would box. I'm so worried about the guys coming up to them. I would love them to be able to smack a guy right off a bar stool."
