"We find that even the parents who justify spanking to themselves are defensive and embarrassed about it....I suspect that deep inthe memory of every parent are the feelings that had attended his own childhood spankings, the feelings of humiliation, of helplessness, of submission through fear. The parent who finds himself spanking his own child cannot dispel the ghosts of his own childhood."

-- Selma Fraiberg

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“You can, of course, be a sexy, strong female and be a good role model.”
“Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in America. The State has no money. It produces nothing. It existence is purely parasitic, maintained by taxation; that is to say, by forced levies on the production of others. 'Government money,' of which one hears so much nowadays, does not exist; there is no such thing.”
“Losing is easy. It's not enjoyable, but it's easy.”
“Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.”
“I propose to beg no question to shrink from no conclusion, but to follow truth wherever it may lead.”
“A good addiction is a contradiction in terms. Anything people can't give up or must have is not healthy, no matter what the activity.”
“In the deadly sweep Of every wave, A thousand dangers lie in wait.”
“Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.”

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