Adolescents do get very angry with their parents, and acknowledging this anger is part of acknowledging them. If the anger is not ...acknowledged then its expression is increased. The parent seems super-strong. The adolescent tries to become the super-attacker.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A journal intime is a super-confidante to whom everything is told and confessed. For an engaged or married man to have a secret su...per-confidante who knows things which are concealed from his lady seems to me to be deliberate infidelity. I am as it were engaged to two women and one of them is being deceived...I would have my wife know all about me and if I cannot be loved for what I surely am, I do not want to be loved for what I am not. If I continue to write therefore she shall read what I have written.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Preschoolers sound much brighter and more knowledgeable than they really are, which is why so many parents and grandparents are so... sure their progeny are gifted and super-bright. Because children's questions sound so mature and sophisticated, we are tempted to answer them at a level of abstraction far beyond the child's level of comprehension. That is a temptation we should resist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science has done great things for us; it has also pushed us hopelessly back. For, not content with filling its own place, it has t...ried to supersede everything else. It has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has thrown contempt on all learning that does not depend on it; and it has bribed the skeptics by giving us immense material comforts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An accent mark, perhaps, instead of a whole western accent--a point of punctuation rather than a uniform twang. That is how it sho...uld be worn: as a quiet point of character reference, an apt phrase of sartorial allusion--macho, sotto voce.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... probably all of the women in this book are working to make part of the same quilt to keep us from freezing to death in a world... that grows harsher and bleaker--where male is the norm and the ideal human being is hard, violent and cold: a macho rock. Every woman who makes of her living something strong and good is sharing bread with us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As boys without bonds to their fathers grow older and more desperate about their masculinity, they are in danger of forming gangs ...in which they strut their masculinity for one another, often overdo it, and sometimes turn to displays of fierce, macho bravado and even violence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A "super person" is one who expects to manage a career, home, and family with complete ease, expecting to maintain a perfect job, ...a perfect marriage, a perfect house, and perfect control of the children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »