A woman’s relationship with her son is psychological, emotional, even physical. Christine Leunens Read Quote
People feel very ashamed to admit that they have in-law problems. They think it’s something petty. But it’s not petty at all. It hits deep emotions. Christine Leunens Read Quote
The themes that I explore, Taika Waititi also explores: how teaching children a sense of ‘us and them’ breeds a sense of superiority and dehumanises what one perceives as ‘otherness’; and why this theme is relevant to today’s rise in the far-Right, how children and youth are indoctrinated into extremism and terrorism. Christine Leunens Read Quote
Be true to yourself, pick something that really matters to them and is dear to them. Christine Leunens Read Quote
Because I write just at home, I’m just in my T-shirt and sneakers all the time. Christine Leunens Read Quote
As a writer, I’m mostly at my desk, staring out my window. No one sees me. Christine Leunens Read Quote
I don’t feel pride when I look at a magazine spread I did for Vogue, but writing is really satisfying to me. I can go so deep into people’s interior lives, slowly and with complexity, over years and years sometimes. That’s very rewarding, in a way that modelling never was. Christine Leunens Read Quote
Looking back, I can’t say I got any real satisfaction from so many people being interested in what I looked like. Christine Leunens Read Quote
I wanted to really just understand… how could a whole generation of children who were just children at the time – boys riding their bikes, flying kites, and doing all kinds of things they normally do – how could they suddenly be taught a completely different curriculum? Christine Leunens Read Quote
