"But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?"

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Mother Quotes #Night Quotes #Voice Quotes

“How sad that men would base an entire civilization on the principle of paternity, upon the legal owership and presumed responsibility for children, and then never really get to know their sons and daughters very well.”
“Use your life to wake you up.”
“I want audiences to look at adolescent delinquents with greater understanding and more compassion.”

Source : "Emmanuelle Bercot on Portraying the Juvenile Justice System in Cannes 2015 Opener ‘Standing Tall’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. March 29, 2016.
“All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.”

Source : Sigrid Undset (2011). “The Mistress of Husaby: Kristin Lavransdatter”, p.180, Vintage
“Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views.”
“Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.”
“I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmothers since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years.”
“Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?”

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