"Being a mother is complicated because its not just a paternal culture making demands on you; its those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated."

-- Siri Hustvedt

#Mother Quotes #Self Quotes #Expectations Quotes

“Don't be a baby about this. No tantrums.”
“There are [in Hollywood] some endemic problems and some things that happen over and over again. There's the problem of representation of basically anybody but white men. These are things that we talk about a lot in contemporary culture, and it's interesting to me to go look at film history from the perspective of today.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Life wasn't meant to be easy.”

Source : Margaret Simons, Malcolm Fraser (2010). “Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs”, p.228, The Miegunyah Press
“I used to hate the sound of my voice.”
“My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.”
“The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by fictions, and thus the cry in the poem may come to sound louder, more urgent, more real than the cry in the street outside. The death in the novel may move us more potently than the death in the next room. Thus there may be a covert, betraying link between the cultivation of aesthetic response and the potential of personal inhumanity.”
“Animal protection is education to the humanity.”
“When you first get into television it is a big deal, then you realize you are no better than anyone else, we just have a platform to use, to help other people. I use that platform for the work I do in the military, the work I do with cancer because I was fortunate enough to get that platform.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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