Ultimate Toy Box

Famous quotes containing the words ultimate, toy and/or box:

    Most women of [the WW II] generation have but one image of good motherhood—the one their mothers embodied. . . . Anything done “for the sake of the children” justified, even ennobled the mother’s role. Motherhood was tantamount to martyrdom during that unique era when children were gods. Those who appeared to put their own needs first were castigated and shunned—the ultimate damnation for a gender trained to be wholly dependent on the acceptance and praise of others.
    Melinda M. Marshall (20th century)

    To my sick soul, as sin’s true nature is,
    Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss.
    So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
    It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    I hate love. Hate being in love. I never want it to happen to me again.
    —Muriel Box (b. 1905)