#i

All humans at some time experience injustice, assault, disqualification, invasion and betrayal. No person is completely shielded. We need not trace our family trees very far back or study for long what life was like for our forbears to uncover humanity's abusiveness. The inherited scars of our multigenerational families exist in our family systems as we know them today. The abuse of the past often exists as the shame of today, and the shame is perpetuated through our patterns of interaction. ↗

— Merle A. Fossum

#survivorship #experience

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#bach #beethoven #i #jane #jane austen

I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#family

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#champion #defend #every

I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.' ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

#am #could #i #i am #i do

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother? ↗

— Gabrielle Hamilton

#becoming-your-parents #family #growing-up #humor #parents

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#afraid #am #deliberate #i #i am

I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent. ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

#either #hardly #hollywood #i #interested

Liberal bigots are the ones who trouble me most. I distrust the extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It's true! Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies. The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who form such governments. Right from the first the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies. Of course, all bureaucracies follow this pattern, but what a hypocrisy to find this even under a communized banner. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#religion #equality

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#life #must #now #short #very