"Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers."

-- Alison Gopnik

#Mean Quotes #Parent Quotes #Leaving Quotes

“One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer and the next minute I was in parliament.”
“I will be writing to the relevant authorities to complain, but I'm wasting my breath.”

Source : "Boothroyd's shoot-out trial raises the play-off stakes" by Mike Ansted, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2006.
“Here in America, marriage still has a mystical, intangible power: It is a passport to adulthood and respectability and to a certain extent citizenship. Any relationship less than "married" is considered temporary and not worthy of honor.”
“Charlie Parker was the greatest individual musician that ever lived. Every instrument in the band tried to copy Charlie Parker, and in the history of jazz there had never been one man who influenced all the instruments.”

Source : Gary Giddins (1987). “Celebrating Bird: the triumph of Charlie Parker”, University of Maryland Sea Grant Publications
“Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.”
“There are Harvard grads, free thinkers, feminists, abolitionists, well-to-do people who want to go write poetry and live on a farm and cook and laugh and have a good time. As they themselves described it, it was an "inward facing" community. They were focusing on making a better existence for themselves, which I think is also the driving force of 20th century communalism in the US, the thought being that the world is corrupt, and we're going to build this little garden of innocence.”
“My mother was the worst cook ever. In school, when we traded lunches, I had to throw in an article of clothing.”
“It's not enough for an official to be good. There has to be a system that forces them to be good.”

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