"Pretending can be a bold form of experimentation and inventiveness. In pretending joy or happiness, we may discover or enhance our capacity for it."

-- Harriet Lerner

#Joy Quotes #May Quotes #Pretending Quotes

“If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?”
“Sophia Loren is the embodiment of what a woman should be -- the epitome of femaleness. Most of the young people today are just ironing boards.”
“Before the whole world, I accuse you, German intellectuals, you non-Nazis, as those truly guilty of all these Nazi crimes, all this lamentable breakdown of a great people--a destruction which shames the whole white race...”
“I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.”
“Every choice in life either moves you forward or keeps you stuck.”
“I pitched my last children's show presentation in the mid 1980's. The era of locally produced children's shows was over and the networks were not and are not interested in children's television.”
“In problem-posing education, people develop their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world with which and in which they find themselves; they come to see the world not as a static reality, but as a reality in process, in transformation.”
“We know nothing about most the people around us, yet there is always a chance they could be hugely valuable to us”

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