"We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?"

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Source : Ellen Goodman (1983). “At Large”, Fawcett Books

Ellen Goodman

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Distance Quotes

“If you can help it, you aren’t destined to become a writer.”
“Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of human pride. Thus the arts and sciences owe their birth to our vices.”
“Scooby snack. Jurassic. Plastic. Gas. Booby Trap”

Source : Song: Nutmeg, Album: Supreme Clientele, 2006
“How fragile we are, between the few good moments.”

Source : Jane Hirshfield (2011). “Come, Thief: Poems”, p.6, Knopf
“The whole wide world scares me! Seriously. I think what happens in our world is so much more frightening than anything I can come up with in my movies.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.”
“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
“People deserve to have their experiences understood in a genuine bio-psycho-social approach. All too often, this is ignored in favor of what is a very reductionist, bio-medical, model.”

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