We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.
We cannot have a world where ...
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I guess I'm just a natural warrior.
There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.