“Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives.” MenChildrenSaidBodyHandsSeemsYoungGirlSensesManipulationScarSooner Or LaterHelplessLike LoveAmorousSpoilers Author:Michael Bassey
“The great arbiters of language are the women who speak it in the presence of children... What the women pass on to the next generation is "right" and what they do not bother to pass on to their children sooner or later becomes "wrong.” ChildrenNextSpeakLanguageGenerationsBotherSooner Or LaterNext GenerationArbiter Author:Charlton Laird
“Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity, and biological reason that culture cannot reach and that reserves the right, which sooner or later it will exercise, to judge the culture and resist and revise it.” ChildrenHardReasonCultureJudgingExerciseAdultsCoreReservesSooner Or LaterStubbornUrgency Author:Lionel Trilling