Jury/role

Famous quotes containing the words jury and/or role:

    I’d rather plead to a Texas jury than preach to this gang.
    Howard Estabrook (1884–1978)

    The role of the stepmother is the most difficult of all, because you can’t ever just be. You’re constantly being tested—by the children, the neighbors, your husband, the relatives, old friends who knew the children’s parents in their first marriage, and by yourself.
    —Anonymous Stepparent. Making It as a Stepparent, by Claire Berman, introduction (1980, repr. 1986)