So it wasn't an unhappy relationship with my dad, just a very complicated one, just a very adult one, in a house that was falling apart with mice and moths infesting many rooms, and far too many conversations about the tragic pathos of pedophiles.
-- Sarah Polley (Alice, Collapsing)

Importance: Both of Sarah Polley's parents had little idea of the proper boundaries as far as parenting children. Polley's father was by far the worst. He made Polley feel uncomfortable, and she came to scorn the sympathy with which he viewed many pedophiles.

It can seem perplexing from the outside, this pull that many women experience to make things better for those who have hurt us.
-- Sarah Polley (The Woman Who Stayed Silent)

Importance: It seems contradictory, but many women attempt to smooth things over with people who have hurt them, even men who have attacked them. The learned behavior to "make nice" is intense. What Polley says here is that she too has experienced...