Ann Douglas Quotes

• Human beings cannot live without stories.

  Ann Douglas

  Earth Day, Stories, Storytelling

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• Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.

  Ann Douglas

  Home, Environmental, Invention

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• 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.

  Ann Douglas

  Religious, Honesty, Duplicity

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• 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

  Children, Struggle, Kids

  "Ann Douglas: How to Cope When Your Child is Suffering With Mental Illness". Interview with Brandie Weikle, thenewfamily.com. January 28, 2015.

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• The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible.

  Ann Douglas

  Rights, Progress, Culture

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