"As a group, housewives to-day suffer more from social isolation and loss of purpose than any other social group, except, perhaps, the old."

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Source : Alva Myrdal, Viola Klein (2003). “Women's Two Roles: Home and Work”, p.191, Psychology Press

Alva Myrdal

#Loss Quotes #Wife Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“A lot of directors on a base level are fearful of actors and maybe even distrustful. I love the craft of acting and I love actors so I think they can probably sense that. They also know that I understand what their process is, having done it myself. The thing I come back to over and over again is that for most people who are not analyzing it from a critical point of view, most iconic film moments are actor moments. We show up to commune with another human being and their experience. We don't show up necessarily to watch a really cool dolly shot.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded...”
“And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses - and that if my readers could feel, taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story.”
“History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation”
“A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.”

Source : William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Early novels and stories”
“...do not the bewitching power of all studies lie in that they continually open up to us new, unsuspected horizons, not yet understood, which entice us to proceed further and further in the penetration of what appears at first sight only in vague outline?”
“I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling.”
“He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.”

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