Quips and Quotations (Uncommonly Good Edition)

 

1946-2025

Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.

--Diane Keaton (née Hall)

 

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Joan Kennedy, the oft-troubled and soon-to-be-divorced wife of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, glances up at herself in 1981.

1936-2025

 

 

 

Quips and Quotations (Not-So-Missing Link Edition)

 

When, in the early 1960s, I brazenly used such words as "childhood", "adolescence", "motivation", "excitement", and "mood" I was much criticized. Even worse was my crime of suggesting that chimpanzees had "personalities". I was ascribing human characteristics to nonhuman animals and was thus guilty of that worst of ethological sins—anthropomorphism.

--Jane Goodall (1934-2025)