“A diet counselor once told me that all overweight people are angry with their mothers and channel their frustrations into overeating. So I guess that means all thin people are happy, calm, and have resolved their Oedipal entanglements.” PeopleMeanMotherPsychologyWeightAngryCalmDietsFrustrationOverweightCounselorEntanglementOvereating Book:Bachelor Girls Source: Bachelor Girls
“Every life and every childhood is filled with frustrations; we cannot imagine it otherwise, for even the best mother cannot satisfy all her child's wishes and needs. It is not the suffering caused by frustration, however, that leads to emotional illness, but rather the fact that the child is forbidden by the parents to experience and articulate this suffering, the pain felt at being wounded.” NeedsChildrenFactsPainMotherSufferingWishFeltParentImagineChildhoodEmotionalFilledIllnessFrustrationWoundedForbiddenBest Mother Book:For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
“When women reach the age of maturity, Mother Nature sometimes overworks their frustration to the point of irrationalism. Like themiddle-aged man...who finds himself looking longingly at a girl in her early twenties.” MenSometimesAgeMotherGirlWomenTwentiesMaturityFrustrationMiddle AgesMother NatureOverwork Author:Mark Hanna