"None of the adults I knew ever touched……" — Maureen Howard
"None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh."
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14 Quotes by Maureen Howard
Maureen Howard has 14 quotes on this site.
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I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together,…
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It was unavoidable, my writing. I feel I had no choice in the matter, no more than I had about…
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The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but…
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I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my…
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Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of…
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There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.
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The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father…
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When I go home my mother and I play a cannibal game; we eat each other over the years, tender…
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If he hadn't been my father I would have loved the spectacle he created-one performance following quickly upon another-like a…
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To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It…
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Wouldn't a laugh serve us better than to battle it out with our mortal souls?
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Even when I was a grown woman, he [Father] would leave me on the edge of hysteria in all our…
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More Adults Quotes
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I…
— Drew Barrymore
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard…
— Roseanne Barr
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When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably…
— Drew Barrymore
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If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids…
— Mario Batali
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
— Martha Beck
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
— Martha Beck
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise…
— Martha Beck
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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