"If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based."

-- Betty Friedan

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“Several years ago, as I was transitioning from film finance to film production and writing again, someone asked me how long I would try to get back into filmmaking before I gave up? My response was "giving up" was not an option.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you look across a host of measures at adoption studies, fraternal v. identical twin studies, twins-raised-apart studies, the history of early childhood intervention research, naturally-occurring experiments, differences between societies, changes over history, and so forth, you tend to come up with nature and nurture as being about equally important: maybe fifty-fifty. The glass is roughly half-full and half-empty.”

Source : "A Short, Stylized Dialogue On Epigenetics". www.vdare.com. October 26, 2012.
“I think it's hard sometimes for people to grapple with the real-life consequences of political change. I think that, we as a culture, feel like politics is one sector of our lives that can feel apart from our personal lives and the cultural things we're interested in and the sports we watch. It feels like this separate, different thing.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“And it's a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as if in reality there is only one time, for everything, one time for every purpose under heaven. One single second, one single landscape, in which what happens activates and deactivates what has already happened in endless chain reactions, like the processes that take place in the brain, perhaps, where cells suddenly bloom and die away, all according to the way the winds of consciousness are blowing.”
“Anything that sparks some eight-year-old's interest in music or DJing is great.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!”

Source : Olive Schreiner (1924). “The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920”, Hyperion Pr
“We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has ***** been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit!”
“Yeah, I paint in my spare time, just to relax myself and wind down a bit.”

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