Mdid Quotes & Sayings

Almost everywhere we find ... the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the child withinus
i.e., the weak, helpless, dependent creature
in order to become an independent competent adult deserving of respect. When we reencounter this creature in our children, we persecute it with the same measures once used in ourselves. — Alice Miller

Cosmetic surgery is not "cosmetic," and human flesh is not "plastic." Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not like ironing wrinkles in fabric, or tuning up a car, or altering outmoded clothes, the current metaphors. Trivialization and infantilization pervade the surgeons' language when they speak to women: "a nip," a "tummy tuck." ... Surgery changes one forever, the mind as well as the body. If we don't start to speak of it as serious, the millennium of the man-made woman will be upon us, and we will have had no choice. — Naomi Wolf

I think I was a terrible husband, I think I'm a terrible boyfriend. — Fred Armisen

Believe as though you are, and you will be ... — Ernest Holmes

I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore. — Katherine Anne Porter

I get to do what I like to do every single day of the year. — Warren Buffett

Security has no place in the life of an actress. — Claire Bloom

J. D. Salinger, the greatly loved author who "had elected to silence himself. He had freedom of speech but what he had ended up wanting more than anything else, it seemed, was the freedom to be silent. — Michael Hofmann