"I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies"

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June Allyson

#Baby Quotes #Home Quotes #Raises Quotes

“When everyone's focused on the conventional parts of war - doing infantry imbeds or chasing IEDs - you look at the thing that seems not that interesting to people, like the circumstances of logistics workers cooking the troops' food or cleaning their latrines.”
“I don't dislike my peers because they're still around and remind me of what I'm doing. I never liked them anyway. I never liked U2, the things they've done over the years.”
“To dance is to live ...to live is to dance.”
“But in the present century, thanks in good part to the influence of Hilbert, we have come to see that the unproved postulates with which we start are purely arbitrary. They must be consistent, they had better lead to something interesting.”

Source : Julian Lowell Coolidge (2013). “A History of Geometrical Methods”, p.423, Courier Corporation
“There are Harvard grads, free thinkers, feminists, abolitionists, well-to-do people who want to go write poetry and live on a farm and cook and laugh and have a good time. As they themselves described it, it was an "inward facing" community. They were focusing on making a better existence for themselves, which I think is also the driving force of 20th century communalism in the US, the thought being that the world is corrupt, and we're going to build this little garden of innocence.”
“We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and pointing fingers, rather than bucking up and forging ahead. But what if your childhood was all a big misunderstanding? An elaborate ruse? What does that say about failure? Better yet, what does that say about potential?”

Source : Heidi Julavits (2004). “The Effect of Living Backwards”, p.12, Penguin
“... it's a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return.”
“Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.”

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