Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. – Erich Fromm
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. – Erich Fromm
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mothers side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent. – Erich Fromm
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. – Erich Fromm
Thats What She Said is not Hollywoods standard picture of women: preternaturally gorgeous, wedding obsessed, boy crazy, fashion focused, sexed up girl women. These are real women, comically portrayed, who are trying to wrestle with the very expectations of womanhood that Hollywood movies set up. – Carrie Preston