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.
Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved. - Ann Douglas
Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.
- Ann Douglas
Human beings cannot live without stories. - Ann Douglas
Human beings cannot live without stories.
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 re… - Ann Douglas
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 re…
Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid. - Ann Douglas
Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.
The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible. - Ann Douglas
The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible.
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