"I had wanted to make this film [Suffragette] for over a decade. There has never been a cinematic rendition of this story. I had not been taught any of the history of the movement at school, and the version I had gleaned had been the Mary Poppins story of women in large hats, petitioning. There was another version."

-- Sarah Gavron

#School Quotes #Taught Quotes #Hats Quotes

“We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.”
“Of death, my father has always said that the best conditions are the ones in which you have plenty of time to prepare - to say what you need to say; to arrange your estate - and the ones in which you get to choose, or at least have some knowledge of, how and when it might happen. One can't elude death, but one can have a good death.”

Source : Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.
“If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair.”
“What is the one thing that 43% of men prefer over sex? Bacon!”
“Just because I squeezed my gigantic bottom into menâ€™s trousers, you neednâ€™t assume my brains have shrunk to masculine size.”
“Sometimes we depersonalize people who we don't agree with or who we see as targets for hatred. If you think of anything as having a mother, that's going to change everything. All of us have mothers and came from a womb. Buddha says you can't hate anything you understand.”
“Barack Obama is clearly a smart guy, talented.”
“No, thats not how it happened... Mr crepsley dropped. He was impaled on the stakes. Heï»¿ died. And it was awful... His cries as he writhed there, bleeding and dying, burning and screaming, will stay with me till I die. Maybe I'll even carry them with me after I go.”

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