It’s Friday night and the rain is coming and I’ll find myself at some bar making some woman smile, wondering if you’d hop on the next thing moving in this direction, run in the house, throw on your chucks and play with me in the rain. ― Darnell Lamont Walker, Book of She

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Your son and your daughter needs an excellent father more than an excellent college.

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If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.

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Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. ― Sojourner Truth

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But the biggest beauty advice I've given my daughter is every morning I say, "Genesis, what are the two best parts of you?" And she says "my brain and my heart." And I say, "You've gotta remember that, Genesis. You've gotta remember that you're not what you look like," you know? I think that's the best beauty advice I could give her.

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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.— Barbara Bush

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If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. ― Lucy Larcom

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A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence. ― Mandy Hale

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I do have to say my daughter, Sunday, said to me [I was being] overprotective, so you must have been a fly on the wall.

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We are always getting ready to live but never living. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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