"Mothers ... would do anything to steer their daughter the right way. It is frustrating beyond measure for them when a daughter screams, 'You don't understand, and you'll never understand!' The mother stamps her foot in aggravation, but in this case the daughter is right: the mother doesn't understand. She merely remembers, and memory is separate from experience."

-- Caitlin Flanagan

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Memories Quotes

“If the sky were to suddenly open up, there would be no law, there would be no rule. There would be only you and your memories, the choices you've made and the people you've touched.”
“Comedy is not something that had necessarily jumped out as something I'd immediately go for.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“You sick, twisted monster," Sabrina seethed at Pinocchio.”
“Gymnastics is my whole life, and I dream of going to the Olympics and being a world champ.”
“Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use of them than to look at the foot how the burials increased or decreased, and among the Casualties what had happened, rare and extraordinary, in the week current; so as they might take the same as a Text to talk upon in the next company, and withal in the Plague-time, how the Sickness increased or decreased, that the Rich might judg of the necessity of their removal, and Trades-men might conjecture what doings they were likely to have in their respective dealings.”
“In the same way Marxism robs workers of ambition, Feminism robs men and women of love.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 2, 2016
“In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more poetry than prose, but now it is in prose where you find things being put together well, where there is great ambition, and equal talent. Poets have gotten so careless, it is a disgrace. You canâ€™t pick up a page. All the words slide off.”
“I think that what I knew as a teenager, and what I rediscovered in my mid-forties, was - aside from the primacy of sexual desire and how strongly it rules me - this idea that we are lucky to feel something. Even if that something is sadness.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com

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