"I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father."

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Source : Jules Feiffer (1977). “Hold Me!”, p.44, Dramatists Play Service Inc

Jules Feiffer

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Looks Quotes

“White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white. Generally white people who experience such privilege do so without being conscious of it.”
“God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.”
“Would you not like to be, sittin' on top of the world with your legs hanging free?”
“The dark today leads into light tomorrow. There is no endless joy, and yet no endless sorrow.”
“My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.”

Source : Vernon Jordan (2009). “Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir”, p.30, PublicAffairs
“She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to volunteer the story, she realized, and she could just as easily choose to say nothing. But he deserved to know. They all deserved it, and Kirra already knew it, and Cammon may have guessed it, because Cammon could read souls, but Tayse was the only one she would tell.”

Source : Sharon Shinn (2006). “Mystic and Rider”, p.191, Penguin
“I love this idea of being able to touch people with something quite familiar, something quite emotional, and at the same time, have the feeling that this is a new way of doing it, a fresh way of showing things. I like radical people. At the same time, I'm fascinated by popularity, people who were able to have huge success and also keep their consistency.”
“In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.”

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