The ancestors are very much invested in the children, because the children are the ones who are going to continue the world that the ancestors made.
Robert BlyTo be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.
Robert BlyAdolescents believe that the world belongs to the living, or more particularly to living people their age, so they feel within their rights if they destroy the canon or rewrite the fairy stories or act like Red Guards.
Robert BlyIn the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.
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