“In his 1964 talk on feminism, Winnicott says something he's been saying all along. "...We find that the trouble is not so much that everyone was inside and then born, but that at the very beginning everyone was dependent on a woman." Winnicott sees this dependence as the root of misogyny--though he never uses that word. Perhaps, like Woolf with "feminism," he felt plain language was more persuasive. "The awkward fact remains, for men and women, that each was once dependent on a woman, and somehow a hatred of this has to be turned into a kind of gratitude if full maturity of the personality is to be reached.” RelationshipsFamilyFeminismBirthParentsMisogyny Book:Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama Source: Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
“Most people don't even try to get what they want because of the painful reckoning with their parents it entails.” LifeParentsParents And Children Book:The Secret to Superhuman Strength Source: The Secret to Superhuman Strength
“There are two ways to surpass your parents. Ones is to achieve the thing they had hoped for. One is somewhat easier: just to live longer.” LifeParentsParents And ChildrenAchieving Book:The Secret to Superhuman Strength Source: The Secret to Superhuman Strength
“Four years after my father's death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would relate the information in a flat, matter-of-fact tone eager to detect in my listener the flinch of grief that eluded me.” ChildrenDeathFatherGriefChildhoodAdultsParentsElude Book:Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
