Fairy Godmother

I think, at a

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. Eleanor Roosevelt

In fact, of all

In fact, of all hoodoos in Wall Street I think the resolve to induce the stock market to act as a fairy godmother is the busiest and most persistent. Edwin Lefevre

The public has become

The public has become my fairy godmother. Eartha Kitt

All programmers are optimists.

All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end goal. Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger, and the young are always optimists. Fred … Read more

Once upon a time

Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times. Diane Setterfield

Maybe she was being

Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn’t have her own fairy godmother. Charlaine Harris

What I have against

What I have against religion is that they start you when you are so defenseless. I mean, I was three when they started pumping this bullshit into my head. I believed in Santa Claus and the Fairy Godmother, of course I believed in a virgin birth, and a guy lived in a whale, and a … Read more

I met India Arie,

I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet, I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She’s sort of become my fairy … Read more

Oh, where is the

Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her? Allison Pearson