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.
Human beings cannot live without stories. - Ann Douglas
Human beings cannot live without stories.
- Ann Douglas
Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved. - Ann Douglas
Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.
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.
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…
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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