“Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love;” — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
“At one time you take pleasure in a sort of perverse self-denial, and at another you have not resolution to resist a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image