My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the sacrifices and accomplishments of a mother who achieved education but put her dreams on hold for her family.
Twyla Tharp's quote reflects on her mother's pioneering achievement as the first woman in their county to earn a college degree, illustrating the balance between personal ambition and familial responsibilities. Despite her desire to pursue a career as a concert pianist, her mother's commitment to her family during wartime led her to transition into teaching, embodying the often-unseen sacrifices made by women in pursuit of both education and family life.
In practice
This quote can be used during a Mother's Day speech to honor the sacrifices mothers make.
Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me.
I am still pushing the edge of what my body can do.
No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.
Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.
I grew up in a drive-in theater, from the time I was 8, working in a snack bar watching four features every week. It was silent theater in the sense that this was a drive-in, which meant that I often saw the films going with no sound. But I learned to tell stories through action.
Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.
I am saying that I was able to mold those hours around the needs of my family, and that matters. And I really encourage other people at Facebook to mold hours around themselves.
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.
St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families.
I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
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