“The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.”

— Adrienne Rich

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American poet, essayist and feminist 1929–2012

Gavin de Becker (1954) American engineer

Source: The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

“It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.”

Alain de Botton book The Architecture of Happiness

Source: The Architecture of Happiness

“These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities, and on the whole this enterprise is successful.”

Ronald David Laing book The Politics of Experience

Source: The Politics of Experience (1967), p. 58
Context: Long before a thermonuclear war can come about, we have had to lay waste our own sanity. We begin with the children. It is imperative to catch them in time. Without the most thorough and rapid brainwashing their dirty minds would see through our dirty tricks. Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I. Q. s if possible.
From the moment of birth, when the Stone Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father, and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities, and on the whole this enterprise is successful.