Ann Douglas Quotations

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

Human beings cannot live without stories.

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 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.

The situation can be overwhelming. It's important for the family to share the responsibility. It's not just one sibling's job.

The situation can be overwhelming, ... It's important for the family to share the responsibility. It's not just one sibling's job.

Becoming a parent is like taking a trip to a foreign country: you have no way of knowing beforehand what you'll encounter once you get there.