"There's a definition of narcissism that when a parent is narcissistic, instead of the child seeing himself reflected in the mother's face and the mother's joy, the child of the narcissistic parent feels like, 'What can I do to make her okay, to make her happy?'"

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Susan Sullivan

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Joy Quotes

“What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine?”

Source : Jami Attenberg (2013). “The Middlesteins”, p.103, Profile Books
“Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from your kids!”
“Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being.”
“I used to get a sort of sociophobia, and I still get it sometimes these days when I'm in a confined space with too many people. It's not like I freak out or anything, it's just that I'm far more comfortable in my own company sometimes than being surrounded by one thousand strangers.”
“If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it.”
“Every child should be taught to expect success”
“I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.”
“To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree...The difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection , though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered subversive of the theory.”

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