Every one of my friends had a bad day somewhere in her history she wished she could forget but couldn't. A very bad mother day cha...nges you forever. Those were the hardest stories to tell. . . . "I could still see the red imprint of his little bum when I changed his diaper that night. I stared at my hand, as if they were alien parts of myself . . . as if they had betrayed me. From that day on, I never hit him again."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those who believe in their truth--the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men--leave the earth behind them strewn... with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...to many a mother's heart has come the disappointment of a loss of power, a limitation of influence when early manhood takes the... boy from the home, or when even before that time, in school, or where he touches the great world and begins to be bewildered with its controversies, trade and economics and politics make their imprint even while his lips are dewy with his mother's kiss.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its... imprint here.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Goldilocks [There] lived a family of bears ... together anthropomorphically in a little cottage as a nuclear family. They wer...e very sorry about this, of course, since the nuclear family has traditionally served to enslave womyn, instill a self-righteous moralism in its members, and imprint rigid notions of heterosexualist roles onto the next generation. [They named] their offspring the non-gender-specific "Baby."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an i...ndividual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their w...ords aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I could also distinguish the glint of a special puddle (the one Krug had somehow perceived through the layer of his own life), an ...oblong puddle invariably acquiring the same form after every shower because of the constant spatulate shape of a depression in the ground. Possibly something of the kind may be said to occur in regard to the imprint we leave in the intimate texture of space. Twang. A good night for nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »