...one did not need to speak much, only to say what was worth hearing when one did.
If there's anything I hate, it's someone telling me "don't" without saying why.
If one wanted models of good behaviour, one must be a model of good behaviour oneself.
Girls should certainly be heard. It is their voices the world is missing.
Honestly, dear heart, you've got to curb this unhealthy tendency to blow things up. 
Why should I? First she burns me, then she boils me eyes. If I take that knife to anything, it'll be 'er, and that's a fact.
