That's the New York thing, isn't it. People who seem absolutely crazy going around telling you how crazy they used to be before they had therapy. — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill of an acrobat - walking a tightrope over memory and speculation, instinct and theory, feeling and denial. — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
That's the New York thing, isn't it. People who seem absolutely crazy going around telling you how crazy they used to be before they… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain. We're supposed… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill of an… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I am here,… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have. — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the wrong verbal… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
The past isn't useful until its place in the present is found. — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
What interests me, ... is why people are so repelled when, after all, everyone started life attached. In a sense, the twins have never… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
