The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it is repressed. To be confronted with this truth all at once and to try to integrate it into our consciousness, however ardently we may wish it, is clearly impossible. Alice Miller American Writer More Alice Miller Quotes 1
When we go back, it's a different lifestyle. What a shock. Alice Miller American Writer More Alice Miller Quotes 0
It was 20 below zero, but it was a dry cold. It was not too bad. Alice Miller American Writer More Alice Miller Quotes 0
The capacity of the human organism to bear pain is, for our own protection, limited. All attempts to overstep this natural threshold by resolving repression in a violent manner will, as with every other form of violation, have negative and often dangerous consequences. Alice Miller American Writer More Alice Miller Quotes 0
Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on. Alice Miller American Writer More Alice Miller Quotes 0
Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you. Alice Miller American Writer More Alice Miller Quotes 0
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. Alice Miller American Writer More Alice Miller Quotes 0
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. Alice Miller American Writer More Alice Miller Quotes 0
When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man. Alice Miller American Writer More Alice Miller Quotes 0
A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world. Alice Miller American Writer More Alice Miller Quotes 0
,,,It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought. Alice Miller American Writer More Alice Miller Quotes 0