When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.

The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.

We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.

Every creature stalks some other, catches it, and is caught.

Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.

When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.

The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.