Ann Douglas Quotes & Sayings

Just to be in Boston, in Cambridge, on a Monday night was very horrifying to me. It frightens me . . . All the stores closing up by 5 or 6, coffeehouses being open maybe until 11, just the sense that the world shuts down and you're left with yourself. — Ann Douglas

Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid. — Ann Douglas

Probably everything in my life comes back to a feeling of abandonment, and this city never abandons you. — Ann Douglas

Human beings cannot live without stories. — Ann Douglas

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved. — Ann Douglas

You have to be closer to religious origins
the generation of the 20's was truly secular in that it still knew its theology and its varieties of religious experience. We are post-secular, inventing new faiths, without any sense of organizing truths. The truths we accept are so multiple that honesty becomes little more than a strategy by which you manage your tendencies toward duplicity. — Ann Douglas

The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible. — Ann Douglas