Quote of the Day

Of course, we cannot deny the fact that many people live for a long time even though they idealize the parents who were once cruel to them.  But we do not know how they contrived to come to terms with their own un-truth.  Most of them passed it on unconsciously to the next generation.  What we do know is that, at some point, the writers we have been discussing began to suspect their own truth.  But isolated in a society that will always take the part of the parents, they were unable to find the courage to abandon their denial.

-- Alice Miller, The Body Never Lies, p. 80