What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
We think of ourselves as our titles or our jobs or our position in a family. We depend on being praised by others. But something happens when that praise is undermined.
As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.
The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!
Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold a bill of goods at college and by the media.
The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family is around.
We women. as glue for the family. lead lives that are important and conflicted. What we women choose to give up for our families is important and valid.
At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.
In France, Christmas is a family holiday. You stay home. New Year's Eve is when you go out.
Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.
Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.
If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.
I understand that it's good tactics to categorize me as a close-minded, unobjective extremist, but nobody that respects me has those views.
When you have good ingredients, cooking doesn't require a lot of instruction because you can never go very wrong.
If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
If kids can learn how to make a simple Bolognese sauce, they will never go hungry. It's pretty easy to cook pasta, but a good sauce is way more useful.
There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.
I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors.
A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.
Certainly not every reader has liked every one of my books, but I think that's a good thing because it means I'm not repeating myself.
