Teach your daughters, teach your granddaughters, everybody has to have something that they're good at where they can earn a living.
Interpretation
Encouraging women to gain skills that lead to financial independence is vital.
This quote emphasizes the importance of equipping women, particularly daughters and granddaughters, with skills that enable them to achieve financial independence. It suggests that everyone, regardless of gender, should have the opportunity to develop talents that can lead to a fulfilling career, thereby empowering them in society.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech at a women's empowerment seminar.
Women watch and say, 'I like watching you control your own space. It's motivated me to do better, to go back to college, to even try law school. My daughter's been watching you since she's 10 - I love the fact that she's watching a strong woman who's in control.' All of those things are good, positive things.
"Beauty fades," my father would tell me, "but dumb? Dumb is forever."
You don't teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example.
I always say that when I see that needle start to go in the other direction, when people have had enough of me, I'm going to be smart enough to say goodbye. It's such a joyous ride to be on top, and it takes away from that ride if you sort of ride it down.
So we want to free the women of America? You know what would free the women of America? Make men accept responsibility for birth control.
When I was a practising lawyer in the family court, there were too many judges who, when you left their courtroom, you didn't know whether you'd won or whether you'd lost.
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
When we find ourselves unable to reason (as one often does when presented with, say, a problem in algebra) it is because our imagination is not touched. One can begin to reason only when a clear picture has been formed in the imagination. Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.
The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
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