Instead of joyfully looking ...

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.
Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.
 Lorna Luft

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.
 Susanne Katherina Langer
In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.
 Stephen Mallinder
The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.
 Nicolas Winding Refn
I come out of a Cold War sensibility, a Cold War mentality, and during those Cold War years, I used to know, I thought, the answers to everything. And since the end of the Cold War, I'm just a dumb as everyone else.
 Jules Feiffer

Quotes from the same author

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.
 Lorna Luft
The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me.
 Lorna Luft
My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.
 Lorna Luft
Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.
 Lorna Luft
Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.
 Lorna Luft