Ann Douglas famous quotes

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.
-- Ann Douglas

#Home #Invention

Human beings cannot live without stories.
-- Ann Douglas

#Stories #Storytelling #Humans

The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible.
-- Ann Douglas

#Rights #Progress #Culture

Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.
-- Ann Douglas

#Children #Struggle #Kids

You have to be closer to religious origins -- the generation of the 20's was truly secular in that it still knew its theology and its varieties of religious experience. We are post-secular, inventing new faiths, without any sense of organizing truths. The truths we accept are so multiple that honesty becomes little more than a strategy by which you manage your tendencies toward duplicity.
-- Ann Douglas

#Religious #Honesty #Duplicity

Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they stayed there until very nearly tea-time, and then they had a Very Nearly tea, which is one you forget about afterwards, and hurried on to Pooh Corner, so as to see Eeyore before it was too late to have a Proper Tea with Owl.

Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go.

First birth is from your parents, but real birth, real life, begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master and renders service unto him. Then the path is open for going back to home, back to Godhead, to live eternally in full knowledge and full bliss and in association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, Lord Krishna.

Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.

Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.

You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.

The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision...

I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.