"Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation."

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Sara Sheridan

#Mother Quotes #Writing Quotes #Generations Quotes

“Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying.”

Source : "Fears of a clown". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2003.
“In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.”
“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”
“Traveling around the world during the World Cup in 2006, I was thinking, 'Wow, this is such an incredible and global event.'”

Source : "15 Questions with Jehane Noujaim". Interview with Synne D. Chapman, www.thecrimson.com. May 14, 2008.
“Thereâ€™s always an article coming out, saying, â€˜The new thing is funny women!â€™”
“17,000 children starve on this planet every single day. That fact alone should blow any conscious person out of their chair. You know, my mother used to say that a woman's most important job is taking care of her children and her home. I laughed at that when I was younger, but I don't laugh at it anymore. I just realize that every child on the planet is one of our children, and the earth itself is our home.”
“Ultimately, however, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter pointed out, a powerful bureaucratic class is in the same relation to commerce as was the scorpion in Aesop to the dog on whose back he crossed the river. They will destroy commerce and establish socialism, even if it kills them, because that is their nature.”
“Everybody in my band is married, pretty much, and have lives at home, and I don't want them to be away from their families so long that they just start to feel psychotic. You have to go home and stand around in your bathrobe doing your dishes to feel like a normal person sometimes.”

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