Quotes
Authors
Jean Liedloff

"Our parents, our tribesman, our authority figures, clearly expect us to be bad or anti-social or greedy or selfish or dirty or destructive or self-destructive. Our social nature is such that we tend to meet the expectations of our elders. Whenever this reversal took place and our elders stopped expecting us to be social and expected us to be anti-social, just to put it in gross terms, that's when the real fall took place. And we're paying for it dearly."

-- Jean Liedloff

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“I'm not always comfortable when a man tells me he's gay, I don't understand his world but I do understand that he's part of mine.”

Source : "INTERVIEW: Sports caster Dale Hansen discusses the motivation behind his defense of Michael Sam". Interview with Catherine Morpeth, fourtwonine.com. February 13, 2014.
“I'm blessed that I am recognized.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“"Openness" [story] ultimately asks this same question - can a relationship survive complete honesty? As a romantic, I want to say "Yes, of course!" But, over time, I've come to agree with Dan Savage.”
“The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.”
“I feel a lot more comfortable at shortstop, but it's no problem, I'll move to make room.”
“I had my electricity turned off three times because I never had time to pay my bills. It was a joke. I'm making a ton of money, and I'm walking around my apartment with flashlights.”
“When I first came to the Eagles, I found a bunch of guys shell-shocked from losing. They had been through some lean years, they just didn't know how to handle the pressure. They were quiet; they kept to themselves. I said, " Hey, this has gotta change. Let's make pressure fun."”
“Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”

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