“People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children?especially, apparantly, their daughters.”— Daniel C. Dennett Related Quotes “She liked to watch her father as he read, and to listen to the smoothly rolling tones; she felt no curiosity about what the words meant. It was only Shakespeare and she was used to him.”— Stella Gibbons “I’ve been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it’s time to put my family first. It’s probably time to move on.”— Melanie Roach “Inspector Milne’s suspicious prying appeared to have awakened her inner Bolshevik, and so I discovered my own lady mother is not above quietly circumventing the law.”— Elizabeth Wein