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“I want to get away from the kinship structures that are supposed to hold me together. To mess up the story I have been told about myself. To hold the story upside down by its tail.”

Book:Hot Milk

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Hot Milk

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Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy, born in 1959, is a distinguished playwright from the United Kingdom. Her works are known for their profound psychological insights and sharp social commentary. Levy's writing spans a variety of themes, including family, love, politics, and identity. more

“Family was exhausting, and complicated, and everyone was their own person, which meant you had just as much chance of getting along with them as you did any stranger off the street. Just sharing blood wasn't enough to make someone proper family; she'd take Cook over most of her blood relatives, any day.”

Family Family Relationships Relatives

Book:A Dictionary of Scoundrels

Source: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

“Leah: I want those gubs Mommy. Kate: They're not 'gubs' they're 'gloves' Aaden and Leah try and say gloves Leah: Gloves! Kate: Good job! Aaden: Gubs! Kate: No”

Children Family Parenting Motherhood Mothers Gloves Reality Tv

Author:Kate Gosselin

“Nós, pais erramos muito e frequentemente porque os manuais são genéricos e nosso produto específico.”

Children Education Family Parents Educação Pais Filhos

Book:O Poder dos Pais no desenvolvimento emocional e cognitivo dos filhos

Source: O Poder dos Pais no desenvolvimento emocional e cognitivo dos filhos

“Play on lively, diversified sidewalks differs from virtually all other daily incidental play offered American children today: It is play not conducted in a matriarchy. Most city architectural designers and planners are men. Curiously, they design and plan to exclude men as part of normal, daytime life wherever people live. In planning residential life, they aim at filling the presumed daily needs of impossibly vacuous housewives and preschool tots. They plan, in short, strictly for matriarchal societies.”