My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didnt have any money, because Africa was the dark continent, and because I was a girl. – Jane Goodall
Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words dont go away, they just echo around. – Jane Goodall
War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups. – Jane Goodall
Im highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I dont feel in tune with British politics. – Jane Goodall
Its not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didnt have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didnt have much to do with reality. – Elizabeth Gilbert
My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, Im still always moving. – Gus Van Sant