"When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe……" — Rebecca Solnit
"When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed over your early years; there is whatever more human-scale version might have been possible to perceive later and maybe even befriend; and there is the internalized version of the parent with whom you struggle- to appease, to escape, to be yourself, to understand and be understood by- and they make up a chaotic and contradictory trinity."
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127 Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
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This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people…
— Nick Cannon
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There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history…
— Douglas MacArthur
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There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum…
— Gelett Burgess
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Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed…
— Susan Sontag
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Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or…
— Walter Lippmann
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No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you…
— Uell Stanley Andersen
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I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and…
— Ray Liotta
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People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They…
— Gautama Buddha
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The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand:…
— Sarah Palin
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Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion,…
— Baruch Spinoza
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