"It is our genetic nature as a species to believe as young children that our parents and elders are right. We watch them to see what's what. Later on we can judge for ourselves and rebel if need be, but when we're just months old, or a year or two, and a parent looks at us with impatience, or disgust, or disdain, or just leaves us there to cry and doesn't answer us even though we're longing to be embraced and nurtured, we assume that something must be wrong with us. Unfortunately, at that age it's impossible to think there might be something wrong with them."

Source : "An Interview with Jean Liedloff" by Chris Mercogliano, www.continuum-concept.org.

Jean Liedloff

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“The original concept of rock and roll... was supposed to be this young angst with mistakes and all. Four or five guys get together, get angry and that's really how it starts, and i'ts all this energy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did - sly dog!”

Source : Aubrey Beardsley (1921). “Under the Hill: And Other Essays in Prose and Verse”
“So, what do you think, my dear, will it be a girl or a boy?â€ â€œIt will be a soul-stealer, apparently.â€ â€œWhat!â€ The earl reared away from his wife and looked down at her suspiciously.”
“I love not being in a comfortable state, anyway. That makes for much more interesting storylines and an interesting story.”

Source : "VIKINGS: Katheryn Winnick Talks Lagertha, Collaborative Process, and Season 3". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 23, 2015.
“What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?) would have produced, in a course of generations, a cat, or a cat a lion? This is Darwinizing with a vengeance.”
“I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.”
“Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.”
“I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.”

Source : "Speaking with...LEN WEIN PART ONE". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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