Lauren Groff Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• Freedom or community, community or freedom. One must decide the way one wants to live. I chose community.

  Lauren Groff

  Community, Want, Way

  Lauren Groff (2012). “Arcadia”, p.268, Random House

• It seems to me that if you were to take almost any half-century in history, you'd find a grand societal tug-of-war between the community and the individual.

  Lauren Groff

  War, Community, Half

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

• The trouble is that America's become a utopia accessible only to some people. Others get trampled on. Perhaps it's a problem of size. Robin Dunbar, an anthropologist, once gave the ideal number of a given community as 148. That seems about right to me. There's something idealistic about that - in a group of 148 people you can get to know everybody.

  Lauren Groff

  People, Community, Problem

• Sex makes things strained. There are lovely people in Oneida, but everyone was married to everyone else. And you had fathers and mothers watching their twelve-year-old daughters being inducted into the group marriage by sixty-five-year-old men. There are creepy aspects of a lot of intentional communities when it comes to sex.

  Lauren Groff

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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