She who seeks shall find, find all to well, and end up clouding her vision with her own preconceptions. Chantal Akerman More Quotes by Chantal Akerman More Quotes From Chantal Akerman My mother arrived in Brussels in 1938 from a small town near Krakow. But strangely enough, in 1942 or 1943, she was taken back to Auschwitz, which was just 30 miles from where she grew up. Her parents died there and a lot of her family. Chantal Akerman parents small family mother I am from a woman's family. My great-grandmother had three daughters and a son. My grandmother had two daughters, and my mother had two daughters. My sister had a daughter and then finally a son. You should have seen my father with the son. He could not believe that finally there was a boy in the family. Chantal Akerman family daughter mother son I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer there, there's nobody left. Chantal Akerman nobody now mother work My grandparents were very well-educated people, but in the Jewish tradition. They knew everything about the Bible. And then they had to come to Brussels, to run away from Poland, because there was too much anti-Semitism. They lost everything they had. Chantal Akerman tradition lost bible people I grew up reading Proust all my life, and he's very dear to me. Chantal Akerman my-life me reading life I am a woman, and I am Jewish; I'm a film-maker, and I'm a writer, so you cannot just put me in one box. Chantal Akerman woman i-am me you My mother was totally different from the mothers of my friends. She would never separate from me. In a way, my life belongs to her. When I was a child, she complained that I was anorexic, so they sent me to places to get me to eat. When I look at pictures of myself, I was just a normal-looking child. It was her fantasy. Chantal Akerman myself me mother life
