“I have found that sometimes when a person gives up on 'humankind' they can often find trust and love in animal kind. Andr Chevalier”

“Abuse? Ah. Such problems, even with time, do not go away on their own. They must be addressed. Andr Chevalier”

“The actions and emotional responses of others are not your responsibility. You cannot rescue people from themselves. This is for them to do. Andr Chevalier”

“What has been done to you is one thing. Yet to really suffer, to truly be burdened with guilt and shame, such pain always begins not with what has been done to youbut with what you have done. Andr ...”

“Strange how mean words can return to ones thoughts, years after theyve been callously thrown at you. They replay in your mind, spiking a sense of remembered pain. Nasty name calling can be an ugly ...”

“The patterns learned as a child, repeat as an adult. Those with an abusive childhood are very often oh-so blind to this inescapable truth. Andr Chevalier”

“Even seasonal situations can bring with them lessons that last a lifetime. If the love doesnt last, it prepares you for the one that will.”

“A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love,often deciphered by children”

“The ideal-worker standard and norm of work devotion push mothers to the margins of economic life. And a society that marginalizes its mothers impoverishes its children. That is why the paradigmatic...”

“When God Created Mothers"When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of "overtime" when the angel appeared and said. "You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one." And ...”

“If youre not afraid of working hard, self-reliance comes easy!”

“there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it .”

“If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.”