"I was powerless over my childhood but the coping strategies that I developed, to survive, all of which were creative and brilliant and got me through, as an adult those became my defects of character. Those became my shortcomings, control and all that kind of stuff... and that's my responsibility. I was a blameless child in what happened in the home; I take responsibility for my behaviors as an adult."

-- Ashley Judd

#Children Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Home Quotes

“To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.”
“I'm still ready to go to the moon, if they'll take me.”
“I've always loved independent women, outspoken women, eccentric women, funny women, flawed women. When someone says about a woman, 'I'm sorry, that's just wrong,' I tend to think she must be doing something right.”
“There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses [....] The truth by comparison, has only one appearance and only one path, and is always at a disadvantage.”
“I had just settled Grandma on her folding chair and popped open our box lunch when the corpse floated by.”

Source : Thomas McGuane (2015). “Crow Fair: Stories”, p.35, Vintage
“I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I'm joking, but who would've guessed that computer engineers would've been the sexy job of the 1990s?”
“The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it”

Source : Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.158
“Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.”

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