"One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. Weâ€™ve learned to cope in ways you never had to."

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Source : "Fractal Mode". Book by Piers Anthony, January, 1992.

Piers Anthony

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“There's really not much in life that's as violent or traumatic as an encounter with somebody who really surprises you and opens up that strange dynamic that's involved in romantic love.”

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“I guess I'm just a heart-on-sleeve type of human being.”
“Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.”

Source : George Farquhar, George Daniel (1828*). “The Beaux' Stratagem: A Comedy in Five Acts”, p.20
“Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'”

Source : Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY
“I'm a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it's frivolous or superficial, but it's not that way at all. It's actually very hard work.”
“At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation; and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own.”
“As long as there are rich people who have poor people they can send to fight their wars.. We will never have peace”
“There's this presence of these missing people and this lost community that I felt but could not see, and that was a very strange dissonance for me.”

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