“So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state.”

— Sylvia Plath , book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 7

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American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932–1963

J. G. Ballard (1930–2009) British writer

As quoted in Elevator Music (1994) by Joseph Lanza
Context: I began to become an adult when I was 24 and got married and had children. That matures you, but I wouldn't say I was fully an adult until I was in my forties. The trouble with the whole adult debate is that if you're asking 18-year-olds to go out and fight wars for you then you can't deny them adult rights even though in sorts of other ways they wouldn't qualify until they were about 25. These days adolescence stretches much further into adulthood than it used to. There's no longer any encouragement to be mature.

“Maybe knowledge doesn't accrue, maybe it doesn't happen sequentially. Maybe I need to go back and read Hunger of Memory again. Maybe there's a wisdom that I had in those years that I need to learn from now. And maybe there will be a year when I will have the courage to read that book. When I think about it or when I hear other people talk about it, it strikes me as very naked prose, and I'm embarrassed by it. I'm embarrassed by how much I told you. And people say, "Well you didn't tell us you were gay." Or "You didn't tell us you had all these friends or that you were student body president. You never said that."”

Richard Rodríguez (1944) American journalist and essayist

I think to myself, "My God, but what I told you I've never told anybody. And I'll never tell anybody again."
Violating the Boundaries: An Interview with Richard Rodriguez (1999)

“After the wars and the killings had ended, when usually there survived only some boys, some women, and children, these survivors were distributed among the Christians to be slaves.”

Bartolomé de las Casas (1474–1566) Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer

History of the Indies (1561)

“If you help yourself to the benefits of being married when you are single, you're likely to help yourself to the benefits of being single when you're married.”

Manis Friedman book Doesn't Anyone Blush Anymore?

Doesn't Anyone Blush Anymore? (1990); as quoted in Fishman, Sylvia Barack. A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community http://www.books.google.com/books?id=UWCL28nWMoEC&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&dq=why+doesnt+anyone+blush+anymore&source=bl&ots=rXP-j83aqt&sig=TeBM0t-oRsnnHgHtNQVYY0h8ASE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4Uh_U5ibG8KryASYx4GYCA&ved=0CDUQ6AEwBzgy. UPNE. 1995.
Marriage and fidelity

“When I first heard about meditation, I had zero interest in it. I wasn't even curious. It sounded like a waste of time.
What got me interested, though, was the phrase "true happiness lies within." At first I thought it sounded kind of mean, because it doesn't tell you where the "within" is, or how to get there. But still it had a ring of truth. And I began to think that maybe meditation was a way to go within.”

David Lynch book Catching the Big Fish

The First Dive, p. 3
Catching the Big Fish (2006)

“Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you? So that's how the hating first began. I've thought about this a lot, and that's where it started, I think.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“First is the argument from intentionality:
# According to Dr. Rosenberg, if naturalism is true then I cannot think about anything. That is because there are no intentional states.
# But I am thinking about naturalism. From which it follows,
# Therefore, naturalism is not true.
So, if you think that you ever think about anything you should conclude that naturalism is false.”

William Lane Craig (1949) American Christian apologist and evangelist

“Maybe it’s like being a parent, you never really see your children as adults.”

Genevieve Cogman (1972) novelist and game designer

Source: The Burning Page (2016), Chapter 12 (p. 145)
Context: Maybe it’s like being a parent,” she said, bringing up a Library map. “You never really see your children as adults. “You’re exaggerating,” Kai said, with the easy confidence of someone who hadn’t tested the issue yet.

“That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

“Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state.”

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