I’m trying to tell kids if they are gay, it’s OK to be gay. I’ve tried to tell families if they have a gay family member to accept them and love them as they always have. – Jeanne Phillips
You know you don’t have to be the most popular kid in the school to have people acknowledge your presence. – Jeanne Phillips
I think everybody knows they have to be vigilant with their children. I don’t have anything profound to say on that subject. We all know that we have to watch the children. The question is when does it become absolute paranoia? – Jeanne Phillips
Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do. – Jeanne Phillips
Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, western society grew to recognize that neither was just. – Jeanne Phillips
People who write to ‘Dear Abby’ don’t always have the most earthshaking problems in the world. – Jeanne Phillips
I think the gay – the gay/straight alliances in the school are very useful as far as creating understanding among kids and so kids aren’t necessarily so stigmatized or demonized for being who they really are. – Jeanne Phillips
Although there have been warnings that it was coming for years, the Alzheimer’s epidemic is here now and millions more families will be touched by this progressive – and ultimately fatal – disease unless its course can be altered. – Jeanne Phillips
People who take more than their share usually feel an inflated sense of entitlement. – Jeanne Phillips
You can be as devoted and loving a spouse or a caregiver or child, but you also have to remember that you have to program time for yourself in there, because it will renew you. – Jeanne Phillips
Much as you would like, you are not going to change people who feel it’s part of their religious commitment to ‘save’ you. – Jeanne Phillips