“No woman truly wants independence. She wants the freedom to choose her own master. This is also what men want. The origin of all human conflict is, possibly, disagreement about who ought and ought not to be one's master. The origin of all human happiness is, maybe, mutual agreement on the subject.”
Source: Security
“Powerlessness is such a lure, such a poisonous lure.”
Source: Halfway Human
“Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making.”
“But we should open our eyes to the many ways in which hypervigilance keeps them penned in from the more liberated life they deserve to live and that in turn would prepare them for adulthood.”
Source: How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
“When you intervene on behalf of your child, your child becomes the victim. You're expressing the message 'You're incapable, you're not sturdy enough to resolve this yourself, you need me to come in and take care of this for you.'" You are, in essence, disempowering your child.”
Source: How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
“Young adults come to resent the people who did the thinking for them.”
Source: How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
“There is something that's a great deal more important than parental approval: learning to do without it. That's what it means to become an adult.”
Source: How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
“There is no such thing as an “independent artist”. All artists are essentially co-dependent of the audience.”
“In part, that's because when we delay marriage, it's not just women who become independent. It's also men, who, like women, learn to clothe and feed themselves, to clean their homes iron their shirts and pack their own suitcases.”
Source: All the Single Ladies
“Lada made her face stone, her heart a mountain. A mountain that would never be pierced to let cold, clear water flow. “Nothing holds me here.”
Source: And I Darken