A man's fatherliness is enriched as much by his acceptance of his feminine and childlike strivings as it is by his memories of tender closeness with his own father. A man who has been able to accept tenderness from his… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and the varieties of human character, the time to gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
As he walks away on his own two feet--the toddler's body-mind has reached its moment of perfection. The world is his and he the… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . . Carthage, Mahenjo-Daro,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
We humans, once we have become emotionally invested in a homeplace, a prized personal possession, or, especially, in another person, find it immensely difficult… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
We belong to that order of mammals, the primates, distinguished by its propensity for repeated single litters, intense parental care, long life-spans, late sexual… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Normally an infant learns to use his mother as a "beacon of orientation" during the first five months of life. The mother's presence is… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
A man's fatherliness is enriched as much by his acceptance of his feminine and childlike strivings as it is by his memories of tender… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Infancy is the realm conveyed to us in dreams which look backward to the past. Adolescence, more like a work of art, is a… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
In every adult human there still lives a helpless child who is afraid of aloneness.... This would be so even if there were a… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable, passionate and… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
During adolescence imagination is boundless. The urge toward self-perfection is at its peak. And with all their self- absorption and personalized dreams of glory,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Fathers have a special excitement about them that babies find intriguing. At this time in his life an infant counts on his motherfor rootedness… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
