"Although I am good at enumerating my fatherâ€™s flaws, itâ€™s hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because heâ€™s dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than it is for mothers."

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Source : Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Alison Bechdel

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Bars Quotes

“Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.”
“Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patriot Act have been used by law enforcement to stop more than 400 terrorist threats to our families and communities.”
“The woman in charge of costuming assigned us our outfits and gave us a lecture on keeping things clean. She held up a calendar and said, "Ladies, you know what this is. Use it. I have scraped enough blood out from the crotches of elf knickers to last me the rest of my life. And don't tell me, 'I don't wear underpants, I'm a dancer.' You're not a dancer. If you were a real dancer you wouldn't be here. You're an elf and you're going to wear panties like an elf.”
“Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to be the sculptor's ability to let his intuition guide him over the gap between conception and realization without compromising the integrity of the original idea; the point being that the material has vitality - it resists and makes demands...”

Source : "The Studio 132:643". as cited in Voicing our visions, - "Writings by women artists", ed. by Mara R. Witzling, Universe New York 1991, p. 279, 1946.
“The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.”
“Bears are simultaneously so graceful and so strong. Bears know who they are, but they often donâ€™t know who you are, which is why they kill you.”

Source : Mike Birbiglia (2012). “Sleepwalk with Me: And Other Painfully True Stories”, p.77, Simon and Schuster
“Ce que nous connaissons est peu de chose; ce que nous ignorons est immense. What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.”

Source : "Budget of Paradoxes". Book by Augustus De Morgan, 1866.
“Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished.”

Source : "Everything I Know About Parenting I Learned From Leslie Nielsen" by Kevin Makice, www.wired.com. December 2, 2010.

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