"All analyses end badly. Each 'termination' leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths; each is absurd; each is a small, pointless death. Psychoanalysis cannot tolerate happy endings; it casts them off the way the body's immunological system casts off transplanted organs."

-- Janet Malcolm

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“If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?”
“It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary. The contrary would be to say that sex creates oppression, or to say that the cause (origin) of oppression is to be found in sex itself, in a natural division of the sexes preexisting (or outside of) society.”

Source : Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)
“Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.”
“Today it's normal. Photos used to be a support to the text, but we turned things around, reducing the words to a minimum.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General.”
“Dad: someone who hopes his son will turn out just like him, and who is afraid his daughters will meet someone who did.”
“There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me.”
“Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.”

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