"My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed."

-- Jo Brand

#Children Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Taught Quotes

“I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.”
“When I'm interviewing someone, I want to make sure that he thought enough to take care of himself - to dress appropriately and to groom himself properly.”
“[My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.”
“It was our duty to expand. Those who cannot or will not join us are to be pitied. What we want to do, we can do and will do, together. A glorious future!”
“I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.”

Source : Joyce Johnson (1999). “Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir”, p.58, Penguin
“Never judge your clarity based on someone else's response.”
“There's still a lot of misogynist pop music out there, and I think that hearing something that's so explicitly feminist and so angry - when we're still growing up in a culture where girls and women are not supposed to be angry - is a real revelation for young women.”
“Men in all societies possess the biological equipment to remove their hats or shoes, but it is the birth within a particular culture that decides that a Jew will keep his hat and shoes on in his place of worship, a Mohammedan will take off his shoes, and a Christian will keep his shoes on but remove his hat.”

Source : PETER FARB (1968). “MAN'S RISE TO CIVILIZATION”

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