Chodorow And Chodorow Quotes & Sayings

I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure. — Leila Josefowicz

A concern with parenting ... must direct attention beyond behavior. This is because parenting is not simply a set of behaviors, but participation in an interpersonal, diffuse, affective relationship. Parenting is an eminently psychological role in a way that many other roles and activities are not. — Nancy Chodorow

Human pride is a strange thing; it cannot easily be suppressed, and if you stop up hole A will peep forth again in a twinkling from another hole B, and if this is closed it is ready to come out at hole C, and so on. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Jo told me once that she was an old woman everywhere but in her studio. "There I'm only myself," she'd said. Standing in the middle of masterpieces that only Jo had ever seen and touched, I knew what she meant. — Laura Anderson Kurk

There wasn't very much time between wrapping Revolutionary Road and starting The Reader. It was about five and a half months, which, for me, isn't that long. Some actors are very good at just going from one thing to another but I've always been a bit useless at that. The preparation time is important for me. — Kate Winslet

Why did you do it?" Ethan asked suddenly. "Why save my life?"
Carwyn looked at me. I had to admit, I was curious to know the answer as well. It didn't seem like the kind of thing a doppelganger would do. "It was a whim. It was that or buy the weird cheese-and-crackers package off the food cart."
I had honestly not expected a doppelganger to be sassy. — Sarah Rees Brennan

Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work. — Nancy Chodorow

I have every right. You were born to be mine. And you wish to deny me the right to say how I feel, to speak the truth? — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go. — Minnie Bruce Pratt

To make sense of a world in which rapid change and globalisation create genuine insecurity, we need benchmarks by which we can judge our actions and their long-term impact. — David Blunkett

Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg! — Terry Pratchett

In fact, the proposition that man's species nature is estranged from him means that one man is estranged from the other, as each of them is from man's essential nature. — Karl Marx

Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are. — Rod Serling

Maturity is not equated with independence though it includes a certain capacity for independence ... The independence of the mature person is simply that he does not collapse when he has to stand alone. It is not an independence of needs for other persons with whom to have relationship: that would not be desired by the mature. — Nancy Chodorow

The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children ... A daughter continues to identify with the mother — Nancy Chodorow

Since our awareness of others is considered our duty, the price we pay when things go wrong is guilt and self-hatred. And things always go wrong. We respond with apologies; we continue to apologize long after the event is forgotten - and even if it had no casual relation to anything we did to begin with. — Nancy Chodorow