“Sade and Genet both achieved freedom by squeezing it out of their characters. If Apollinaire was right to describe Sade, who spent… — Ronald Hayman Copy Share Image
I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school.… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
“When a girl is sexually abused, layers of secrecy and shame are added to her self-blame. The incestuous aggressor always projects the… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
“and like most people who have spent much of their adult life being emotionally dishonest, I overcalculated the sympathy a final being… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“While his three eldest sons spent their adult lives toiling to improve the family fortunes, who had Benicio named as his heir?… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have spent my adult life trying to figure out why parents and society put themselves into a race -- what's the… — Magda Gerber Copy Share Image
RIE emphasizes the benefits of infants spending peaceful, uninterrupted time following their biological rhythms of falling asleep when sleepy and eating when… — Magda Gerber Copy Share Image
“I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first - the story of our quest… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“All of that was eventually shown—there’s considerable adult neuro-genesis in the hippocampus (where roughly 3 percent of neurons are replaced each month)… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I've spent most of my adult life in the United States, and there the celebrity culture has been entrenched for a long… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life. — Frank Grillo Copy Share Image
Rage-the biggest, truest rage of her adult life-had invaded her like a fever, but it wasn't like any fever she had known… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Archer tries not to think of his own state of purity, physically unsullied, yet now spiritually beyond redemption, his thoughts plagued by… — John T. Fuller Copy Share Image
More than half of Americans have changed religions at least once in their adult lifetime. This is - the rate of religious… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“We all know many people who come from hard-working families, where they had to grow up with a bare minimum and become… — Anna Stevens Copy Share Image
“It was the summer in America when the nausea returned, when the joking didn't stop, when the speculation and the theorizing and… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“The rate spread of EBOLA VIRUS in West Africa, is big tragedy. It is a fatal disease in the history of the… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Don’t dash off a six-thousand-word story before breakfast. Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
“An adult life...is a slowly emerging design, with shifting components, occasional dramatic disruptions, and fresh creative arrangements.” — Jill Ker Conway Copy Share Image
In reality, genuine epiphanies are extremely rare. In contemporary adult life maturation & acquiescence to reality are gradual processes. Modern usage usually… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“He changed and worked out with weights. Throughout his adult life, Adam had cycled through a potpourri of workout programs—yoga (not flexible),… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I think I always had joie de vivre. But I had pretty bad self-esteem growing up and much of my adult life. — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
