POINTS TO PONDER LII
From Reader's Digest

If only one could market the cosmetic wonders that an unimpeachable moral conscience can do for one's face!
Francine Prose
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Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world. But you must get at a man through his own religion, not yours.
George Bernard Shaw
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   Children not only need a father, they long for one, irrationally, with all the undiluted strength of a child's hopeful heart. To raise one's own child without a father may, at times, be a painful and tragic necessity, but it should never be [considered] just another life-style option.
   Before we can address the real problems single mothers and their children face, we must stop pretending that all choices are equally good - that single motherhood is just an alternative family form and that fathers are just another disposable item in the nursery.
Maggie Gallagher