"Between the postwar fifties - domesticity, people happy to be alive after the Second World War, wanting to build a home, make a family, make a nest. Women were pushed back into the home after having been active in the Second World War. It was a big Doris Day moment for women, which didn't suit all women."

-- Sally Potter

#War Quotes #Home Quotes #People Quotes

“For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.”
“Things that happen before you are born still affect you and people who come before your time affect you as well.”
“I am the skeptic of skeptics.”
“If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam would have been a model. That was its real "threat." From the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to 1972, primary and secondary school enrollment in the North increased sevenfold, from 700,000 to almost five million. In 1980, UNESCO estimated a literacy rate of 90 percent and school enrollment among the highest in Asia and throughout the Third World.”
“A million thoughts went through my mind. What little mind I have.”
“I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.”

Source : "The Definitive Imagined Emma Watson Commencement Speech" by Katie Calautti, www.mtv.com. May 26, 2014.
“Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.”
“I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about.”

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