I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more compl...icated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the... course of a year no matter how absurd that opinion might be. We see every day in politics, in business, in social life, large masses of people brought to embrace the most revolutionary ideas, sometimes within a few days. It is all a question of getting hold of them in the right way and working on their weak points.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The tension to mother the "right" way can leave a peculiar silence within mother daughter relationships--the silence of a mother's... own truth and experience. Within this silence, a daughter's authentic voice can also fall silent. This is the silence of perfection. This silence of perfection prevents mothers from listening and learning from their daughters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have been required to put roots and shoots and little stems and tendrils together much as their author did, to wander discourage...d and confused as Hansel and Gretel through a dark wood of witches, to strike the hot right way suddenly, but just as suddenly to mire, to drag, to speed, to shout Urreek! to fall asleep, to submit to revelations, certainly to curl a lip, to doubt, unnose a disdainful snort, snick a superior snicker, curse, and then at some point not very pleasantly to realize that the game I'm playing is the game of creation itself, because Tender Buttons is above all a book of kits like those from which harpsichords or paper planes or model bottle boats are fashioned, with intricacy no objection, patience a demand, unreadable plans a pleasure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Theories of child development and guidelines for parents are not cast in stone. They are constantly changing and adapting to new i...nformation and new pressures. There is no "right" way, just as there are no magic incantations that will always painlessly resolve a child's problems.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of p...rey. But only for those!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »