#iv

Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#bridge #communications #community #concept #economically

Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#body #cell #created #creating #dies

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#become #center #children #longer #mother

Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#beings #diversity #exist #hell #human

Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#another #connection #death #exists #families

In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#died #families #father #his #how

Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space. You have to reimagine who you are and what life is about. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#attention #career #children #down #expansive

Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood. ↗

— Frank Langella

#dracula #each #food #help #liquor

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs. ↗

— Frank Langella

#everybody #grew #his #household #i

If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick. ↗

— A. J. Langer

#heart #i #living #sick