10 Quotes by Ann Douglas



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    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.

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

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    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.

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    The situation can be overwhelming. It's important for the family to share the responsibility. It's not just one sibling's job.

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    The situation can be overwhelming, ... It's important for the family to share the responsibility. It's not just one sibling's job.

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