"Abuse manipulates and twists a child's natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can't afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she's being abused-pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So she short-circuits them and goes numb. For many children, any expression of feelings, even a single tear, is cause for more severe abuse. Again, the only recourse is to shut down. Feelings go underground."

-- Laura Davies

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“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.”
“Wisdom does not depend on mind and memory but on the maturity, purity and perfection of the individual personality. ... Therefore, insights are not passed on through the mind, but - and this particularly - through intuition or inspiration. The degree of wisdom is therefore determined by the state of development of the individual.”
“We used the camera only as a means of expression and as a visual medium that offers possibilities found in no other artistic technique, possibilities that the eye cannot catch in their totality. We tried to establish a characteristic vision of photography.”
“Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.”

Source : "Alain Badiou: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.
“I'm a workaholic, I always try to fill my time with projects.”
“Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.”
“I want to go to a place where I can go to a football game, take off my shirt, paint my chest and major in beer.”

Source : Andrew Ferguson (2012). “Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College”, p.32, Simon and Schuster
“I think that sexuality is only attractive when itâ€™s natural and spontaneous. This is where a lot of them miss the boat. And then something Iâ€™d just like to spout off on. We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but itâ€™s a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift. Art, realÂ art, comes from it, everything.”

Source : "When you're famous you run into human nature in a raw kind of way" by Richard Meryman, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2007.

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