“If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.” IfsImagineStreetsMediaBabyCrossesMachinesShiningApprovalBeamHaircuts Author:Ali MacGraw
“Children of eight and nine who love their mothers dearly will cross to the other side of the street when they see her coming, if they happen to be with friends, because to greet or be greeted by their mothers in the presence of peers is to acknowledge having been (and perhaps still being) a baby.” IfsChildrenStillsHappensMotherSidesStreetsBabyCrossesEightNineAcknowledgePeers Author:Dorothy H Cohen
“In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote because they shared our genes. Now we live in big cities. We are not among kin nor people who will ever reciprocate our good deeds. It doesn't matter. Just as people engaged in sex with contraception are not aware of being motivated by a drive to have babies, it doesn't cross our mind that the reason for do-gooding is based in the fact that our primitive ancestors lived in small groups.” PeopleMindMatterReasonFactsBigsMightWantedPastSexInterestCitiesGroupsBabyCrossesDeedsEngagedMotivatedAncestorGenesPrimitiveGood DeedsSmall GroupsBig CitiesContraceptionExtended FamilyPrehistoricReciprocate Author:Richard Dawkins
“Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out of the box, the way a baby chick escapes an egg, is it strange that I had the shape of a cross? Have you ever noticed that chickens are roughly egg-shaped?” WayLittlesStrangeBabyShapesCrossesBoxesBonesBrokeEggsChickensChicks Book:The Winter of our Discontent Source: The Winter of our Discontent