“My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.” ChildrenFactsStoriesMotherFictionStepsShareAdultsComplicatedDivorceUsualAttemptingLife StoryFamily HistoryDysfunctionObfuscationStep Children Author:Melissa Gilbert
“The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.” WayHumansIndividualCitiesStudyChildhoodCenturyAdultsComplicatedFinishedVersionsCuriousFascinatingTransformedInfant Book:GROWING UP IN NEW GUINEA Source: GROWING UP IN NEW GUINEA
“When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.” PeopleFeelsWellsChildrenEnoughFeelingsRealityEmotionSeeingAdultsComplicatedUpsetHidingLayersTrue FeelingsSubterfugeHiding Things Author:Wallace Shawn
“An adult is one who has lost the grace, the freshness, the innocence of the child, who is no longer capable of feeling pure joy, who makes everything complicated, who spreads suffering everywhere, who is afraid of being happy, and who, because it is easier to bear, has gone back to sleep. The wise man is a happy child.” MenChildrenFeelingsJoySufferingLostSleepGoneGraceWiseBearsEasierPureCapableAdultsSpreadComplicatedInnocenceFreshnessHappy ChildrenPure Joy Author:Arnaud Desjardins
“People love to talk about how the '70s are the only time they made movies about characters, and adult movies, and complicated people. But in the '80s, they got away with some of those too.” PeopleMadeCharacterAdultsComplicated80sOnly Time Author:Elisabeth Shue