Betrayal Quote by Lloyd deMause

Sociologists and historians have avoided looking for the family sources of wars and social violence. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship…

— Lloyd deMause

“cruel mothers are still mothers. they make us wars. they make us revolution. they teach us the truth. early. mothers are humans. who sometimes…

— Nayyirah Waheed

“Perhaps the loaded question is: How often is maternal self-sacrifice really only masochistic martyrdom, destructive to the mother and destructive to the child as…

— Natalie Shainess

“As a child he had often thought of killing himself, but those were sentimental reveries born a wish to punish his father and mother…

— Truman Capote

“Parents of murdered children have it worst, and to me the fathers have it even worse than the mothers because they are taught to…

— William Landay

“We're the sons appalled by violence, with no capacity for inflicting physical pain, useless at beating and clubbing, unfit to pulverize even the most…

— Philip Roth

“It's sad that the murdering of children abroad is a normality within our present day and within our culture as Americans. On a spiritual…

— Kenneth G. Ortiz

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function…

— Emma Goldman

“Your lifelong rebellion against all forms of authority stems from the infant’s desire to murder the father and possess the mother.”

— Donald O'Donovan

“Children should be seen and not heard,' my mother contributed grimly, ganging up on me. That was the worst part, having her join the…

— Edith Konecky

“Because the truth was, there was a dark underbelly of terror to motherhood. You loved your children with such an overwhelming fierceness that you…

— Katherine Center

We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.

— Pat Brown