T. J. Perkins Quotes

But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.

Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.

This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place . . . and the world waits while she powders her nose.

I have preferred chloroform to cancer

Until mothers earn their livings, women will not

To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.

At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth.

In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.

The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living."

Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress.

A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.

I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.

To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more.

It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.

In great cities where people of ability abound, there is always a feverish urge to keep ahead, to set the pace, to adopt each new fashion in thought and theory as well as in dress - or undress.

The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.

I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.

Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.

There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.

If fifty men did all the work, / And gave the price to five, / And let those five make all the rules - / You'd say the fifty men were fools, / Unfit to be alive.

Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!

I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!

There's heaven. There it is. What more do we mean? People, free to come together, and in beauty - for growth.

We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.

I was climbing up a mountain-path With many things to do, Important business of my own, And other people's too, When I ran against a Prejudice That quite cut off the view.

There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.

While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.

(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind

The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.

Sometimes the Good is the enemy of the BEST!

I have two older sisters; I'm the youngest.

My oldest step-son wants to direct or produce. As far as being an actor, I've already told them they have to wait until they're 18; I won't take them to auditions.

How life can change if you're lucky enough to be around for it.

I have a huge passion for literature.

I'm a big fan of 'Woody Allen' movies, so I like all the actresses in his movies like 'Diane Keaton' and Mia Farrow.

I generally have an idea where I want to go, but I don't know how I'm going to get there.

A long time ago, I had an idea to make a book for preschoolers who had older siblings who were going to school.

I had a general outline of subjects. The way I start my days is my husband brings me a thermos of coffee up to the bedroom.

I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.

Some of it just involved thinking about, for example, the different kinds of science, what chemistry is.

I [drinking coffee] for about an hour, I get dressed and go down in my studio, and that's a different kind of working.

In the bedroom time I have generated thoughts, and then in the studio I take those thoughts and try to shape them into something.

The morning time is also a time when I look at what I did yesterday. That's often a jumping-off point for today.

I'm German, after all.

I don't feel like it's something I invented myself, rather something I absorbed and continue to do.

I remember when I was working on All Alone in the Universe, and Robin Roy was my editor. When I first sent it to her, she said kids this age don't want pictures in their books.

By the time I finished the book [All Alone in the Universe], Robin Roy was saying, "More pictures!"

It really does feel, partly because of graphic novels kids read, like there's a lot of freedom with how you can use both images and words, because we think in both of those ways.

I think we're conditioned by watching movies.