“I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or whether Napoleon , at Austerlitz, really felt that he was getting even with Madame Mère. I know nothing of the mother of Attila , but I rather suspect that she spoilt the little darling, who subsequently found the world irritating because it sometimes resisted his whims.” KnowsMenWorldLittlesSometimesMotherFoundFatherFeltDoubtHe ManFilledTerrorChiefsSuspectsDarlingPirateWhimIrritatingRetrospectiveSpoilt Book:Power: A New Social Analysis Source: Power: A New Social Analysis
“Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy.” WellsJoyMotherEvilSorrowTerrorDenialSweetnessRecognise Book:Awakened India Source: Awakened India
“We perversely see mother love as the problem--when it is all we have to sustain us--rather than blaming the fathers who have run out on our mothers and on us. We seem willing to forgive fathers for loving too little even as we still shrink in terror from mothers who love too much.” LittlesStillsProblemSeemsRunningMotherFatherToo MuchWillingBlameForgivingTerrorShrinksMother Love Author:Frank Pittman