#neglect

In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#attention #claims #does #expose #forget

She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else. ↗

— Anne Bronte

#children #courted #dogs #else #everybody

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen. ↗

— Michael Harrington

#forgotten #important #important things #invisible #most

Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#camps #concentration #countries #died #false

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor. ↗

— Samuel Horsley

#education #form #government #infant #itself

For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling "vaguely guilty. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#mothers #neglect #old-age #parents #sentimentality

The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips. ↗

— Karen McDougal

#bone #guy #hip #i #kiss

I have learned that I will not change the world, Jesus will do that. I can however, change the world for one person. I can change the world for fourteen little girls and for four hundred schoolchildren and for a sick and dying grandmother and for a malnourished, neglected, abused five-year old. And if one persons sees the love of Christ in me, it is worth every minute. In fact, it is worth spending my life for. ↗

— Katie J. Davis

#christian-living #christianity #christians #love #mission-statement

No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#advice #broken-families #divorce #hope #kids

We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#must #neglect #never #own #patient