"I don't have kids, but I've often noticed when people first become parents they seem to completely forget their own adolescence and they start to, as their kids become teenagers, try to do the things that didn't stop them themselves. And I jokingly frame this as: Your brain gets wiped of those memories when you become a parent."

-- Maia Szalavitz

#Memories Quotes #Teenager Quotes #Kids Quotes

“Public opinion: May it always perform one of its appropriate offices, by teaching the public functionaries of the State and of the Federal Government, that neither shall assume the exercise of powers entrusted by the Constitution to the other.”
“We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good.”
“I wanted to be a writer when I was a little kid. Then I wanted to be Pete Townshend - the songwriting guitarist who occasionally sang.”
“Where your food comes from is as important as how you smoke it.”
“The woman who takes a woman lover lives dangerously in patriarchy.”
“I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12”
“The real satanist is not quite so easily recognized as such”
“Take earth for your own large room and the floor of earth carpeted with sunlight and hung round with silver wind for your dancing place.”

Source : May Swenson (2013). “May Swenson: Collected Poems: (Library of America #239)”, p.675, Library of America

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