I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.
It's easy to underestimate the real cost of home ownership.
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
The appreciative smile the chuckle the soundless mirth so important to the success of comedy cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
No man can call himself liberal or radical or even a conservative advocate of fair play if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home or in the office.
We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.
The more one does and sees and feels the more one is able to do and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home and love and understanding companionship.
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?