“It’s simply a better world if Bigfoot is real,” Lynne S. McNeill, a folklorist at Utah State University, told me. “It says something positive about our wilderness spaces. It says we haven’t totally destroyed our planet, that there are
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“It’s simply a better world if Bigfoot is real,” Lynne S. McNeill, a folklorist at Utah State University, told me. “It says something positive about our wilderness spaces. It says we haven’t totally destroyed our planet, that there are enough wild places left that a creature like Bigfoot can live undetected.” good take
“In what ways does the "protection" of a man grant a woman the freedom to break societal rules, so long as the one rule she does not break is her dependence on said man for her safety and to sanctify her appropriateness as a parent, as a human being?”
― Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason
― Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason
“Both theatre and reality, said Mr Levy, came down to just three words – motivation, intention and goal.”
― The Fury
― The Fury
“Feeling the absence of someone’s company and the absence of their love are two different things.”
― Good Material
― Good Material
“You don't let go once. That's your first mistake. You say goodbye over a lifetime. You might not have thought about her for ten years, then you'll hear a song or you'll walk past somewhere you once went together - something will come to the surface that you'd totally forgotten about. And you say another goodbye. You have to be prepared to let go and let go and let go a thousand times.”
― Good Material
― Good Material
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